Daytime noise predicts nocturnal singing in urban robins

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 368-370

  Fuller, Richard A ^a   Warren, Philip H ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Nocturnal song; Urbanization; Vocal communication

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; POLLUTION EFFECT; SONG; SONGBIRD; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; URBANIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGING; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY; TIME; URBANIZATION; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ERITHACUS RUBECULA;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENGLAND; LIGHT; NOISE; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 35248891589     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0134     Document Type: Article

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