'Silent' signals: selective forces acting on ultrasonic communication systems in terrestrial vertebrates

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1423-1428

  Arch, Victoria S ^a   Narins, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bats; exaptation; frogs; Huia cavitympanum; Odorrana tormota; predator avoidance; rodents; signal to noise ratio; terrestrial vertebrates; ultrasonic communication

Indexed keywords

BAT; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FROG; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATOR; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RODENT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; ULTRASONICS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; HUIA CAVITYMPANUM; ODORRANA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 51549103845     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.05.012     Document Type: Note

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