Male response to historical and geographical variation in bird song

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-59

  Derryberry, Elizabeth P ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural discrimination; Birdsong; Geographical variation; Historical signals; Signal evolution; White crowned sparrow

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSPECIFIC; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AVES; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS;

EID: 79551502582     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0519     Document Type: Article

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