Habitat-dependent acoustic divergence affects playback response in urban and forest populations of the European blackbird

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 876-883

  Ripmeester, Erwin A P ^a   Mulder, Maarten ^a   Slabbekoorn, Hans ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

anthropogenic noise; bird song; ecological speciation; geographic variation; Turdus merula

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DIVERGENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT QUALITY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SONG; SONGBIRD; URBAN AREA;

AVES; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 77954358787     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq075     Document Type: Article

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