Vocal frequency change reflects different responses to anthropogenic noise in two suboscine tyrant flycatchers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1714, 2011, Pages 2025-2031

  Francis, Clinton D ^a   Ortega, Catherine P ^b   Cruz, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Acoustic masking; Anthropogenic noise; Habitat use; Signal change; Suboscine

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOACOUSTICS; FITNESS; HABITAT USE; NOISE; PERSISTENCE; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION; UNITED STATES; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; NEW MEXICO; NOISE; PASSERIFORMES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; EMPIDONAX WRIGHTII; MYIARCHUS CINERASCENS; TYRANNIDAE;

EID: 79957649073     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1847     Document Type: Article

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