Behavioral plasticity allows short-term adjustment to a novel environment

American Naturalist

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 456-464

  Gross, Karin ^a   Pasinelli, Gilberto ^a,b   Kunc, Hansjoerg P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Birdsong; Emberiza schoeniclus; Environmental change; Noise pollution; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BREEDING SEASON; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NOISE POLLUTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SONG; SONGBIRD;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; NOISE; PASSERIFORMES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; EMBERIZA SCHOENICLUS;

EID: 77957581131     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655428     Document Type: Article

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