Song type sharing and territory tenure in eastern song sparrows: implications for the evolution of song repertoires

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 701-710

  Hughes, Melissa ^a   Anderson, Rindy C ^b   Searcy, William A ^b   Bottensek, Laurie M ^a   Nowicki, Stephen ^c  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Melospiza melodia; repertoire size; sexual selection; song acoustics; song sharing; song sparrow; territory tenure; vocal communication

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG; SONGBIRD; TERRITORY; VOCALIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA;

EID: 33947619478     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.09.013     Document Type: Article

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