Issues in the classification of multimodal communication signals

American Naturalist

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 231-245

  Partan, Sarah R ^a   Marler, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Composite signal; Multichannel; Multisensory; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSATION; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; SENSATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 23044476654     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/431246     Document Type: Short Survey

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