Lizards speed up visual displays in noisy motion habitats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1613, 2007, Pages 1057-1062

  Ord, Terry J ^a   Peters, Richard A ^b   Clucas, Barbara ^a   Stamps, Judy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Anolis; Background noise; Signal detection; Territorial displays

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND LEVEL; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT; HABITAT QUALITY; LIZARD; MOVEMENT; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNALING; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOLIS CRISTATELLUS; ANOLIS GUNDLACHI; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITAT; LIZARD; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; MOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA; ANOLIS; ANOLIS CRISTATELLUS; ANOLIS GUNDLACHI; AVES; SQUAMATA;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; LIZARDS; MOTION; MOVEMENT; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 34249949666     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0263     Document Type: Article

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