Macrogeographical variation in the song of a widely distributed African warbler

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 484-487

  Benedict, Lauryn ^a   Bowie, Rauri C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird song; Cisticola erythrops; Cultural drift; Geographical variation; Isolation by distance

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; SELECTION; SONGBIRD; SUBSPECIES;

AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIODIVERSITY; CISTICOLA ERYTHROPS; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SINGING; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOCALIZATION;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AVES; CISTICOLA ERYTHROPS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 67749108195     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0244     Document Type: Article

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