Can rarefaction be used to estimate song repertoire size in birds?

Current Zoology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 300-306

  Peshek, Kathleen R ^a   Blumstein, Daniel T ^a,b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral accumulation curve; Bioacoustics; Capture recapture; Numerical count; Rarefaction; Song repertoire size

Indexed keywords

AVES; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS;

EID: 79955557107     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.3.300     Document Type: Article

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