Song diversity predicts the viability of fragmented bird populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Laiolo, Paola ^a,b   Vögeli, Matthias ^a   Serrano, David ^a   Tella, José L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGING; SOCIAL LEARNING; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 46649113359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001822     Document Type: Article

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