Acoustic discrimination of sympatric morphs in Darwin's finches: A behavioural mechanism for assortative mating?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1543, 2010, Pages 1031-1039

  Podos, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Darwin's finches; Ecological speciation; Geographical variation; Song discrimination; Song playback

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; ASSORTATIVE MATING; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLIGHT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; SONG; SONGBIRD; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

CALIFORNIA; CHANNEL ISLANDS [CALIFORNIA]; SANTA CRUZ ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; GEOSPIZA FORTIS;

EID: 77950842456     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0289     Document Type: Article

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