Alert signals enhance animal communication in "noisy" environments

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 48, 2008, Pages 18830-18835

  Ord, Terry J ^a,b   Stamps, Judy A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal signals; Habitat noise; Robotic lizard playbacks; Tropical lizard

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOLIS GUNDLACHI; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HABITAT; INFORMATION; LIZARD; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MODULATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISIBILITY; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; LIZARDS; MALE; NOISE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; ANOLIS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 57749117386     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807657105     Document Type: Article

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