Urban noise and the cultural evolution of bird songs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1680, 2010, Pages 469-473

  Luther, David ^a,b   Baptista, Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird song; Cultural evolution; Dialect; Urban noise

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NOISE; PASSERINE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONG; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS;

EID: 76249122471     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1571     Document Type: Article

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