Singing in the sky: Song variation in an endemic bird on the sky islands of southern India

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 513-520

  Robin, V V ^a,b   Katti, Madhusudan ^b   Purushotham, Chetana ^a   Sancheti, Aditi ^a,c   Sinha, Anindya ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES   (India)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ABASAHEB GARWARE COLLEGE   (India)

^d NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Brachypteryx major; Cultural variation; Deforestation; Genetic barrier; Shola forest; Sky island; Western Ghats; White bellied shortwing

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; ISLAND; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SONG; SONGBIRD;

INDIA; WESTERN GHATS;

AVES; BRACHYPTERYX MAJOR;

EID: 80051671853     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.05.032     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Alstrom P., Olsson U., Rasmussen P., Yao C., Ericson P., Sundberg P. Morphological, vocal and genetic divergence in the Cettia acanthizoides complex (Aves: Cettiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2007, 149:437-452.
2. Baptista L. Nature and its nurturing in avian vocal development. Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds 1996, 39-60. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. D. Kroodsma, K. Miller (Eds.).
3. Blumstein D., Munos O. Individual, age and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls. Animal Behaviour 2005, 69:353-361.
4. Caro T. Behaviour and conservation: a bridge too far?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2007, 22:394-400.
5. Catchpole C., Slater P. Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations 1995, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
6. Collar N., Crosby R., Crosby M. Threatened Birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book 2001, BirdLife International, Cambridge.
7. Dawson M., Bloomfield L., Charrier I., Sturdy C. Statistical classification of black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli) call notes. Journal of Comparative Psychology 2006, 120:147-152.
8. Doupe A., Kuhl P. Birdsong and human speech: common themes and mechanisms. Annual Review of Neuroscience 1999, 22:567-631.
9. Doutrelant C., Lambrechts M. Macrogeographic variation in song: a test of competition and habitat effects in blue tits. Ethology 2001, 107:533-544.
10. Drovetski S.V., Zink R.M., Rohwer S., Fadeev I.V., Nesterov E.V., Karagodin I., Koblik E.A., Red'kin Y.A. Complex biogeographic history of a Holarctic passerine. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2004, 271:545-551.
11. Gammon D., Baker M., Tipton J., Yasukawa K. Cultural divergence within novel song in the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus). Auk 2005, 122:853-871.
12. Gil D., Gahr M. The honesty of bird song: multiple constraints for multiple traits. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2002, 17.
13. Grant B.R., Grant P.R. Cultural inheritance of song and its role in the evolution of Darwin's finches. Evolution 1996, 50:2471-2487.
14. Grant P., Grant B. Unpredictable evolution in a 30-year study of Darwin's finches. Science 2002, 296:707-711.
15. Grant P., Grant B., Petren K. The allopatric phase of speciation: the sharp beaked ground finch (Geospiza difficilis) on the Galapagos islands. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 2000, 69:287-317.
16. Helbig A.J., Seibold I. Molecular phylogeny of Palearctic-African Acrocephalus and Hippolais warblers (Aves: Sylviidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 1999, 11:246-260.
17. Koetz A.H., Westcott D.A., Congdon B.C. Geographical variation in song frequency and structure: the effects of vicariant isolation, habitat type and body size. Animal Behaviour 2007, 74:1573-1583.
18. Laiolo P., Tella J. Habitat fragmentation affects culture transmission: patterns of song matching in Dupont's lark. Journal of Applied Ecology 2005, 42:1183-1193.
19. Laiolo P., Tella J.L. Erosion of animal cultures in fragmented landscapes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2007, 5:68-72.
20. Liu I., Lohr B., Olsen B., Greenberg R. Macrogeographic vocal variation in subspecies of swamp sparrow. Condor 2008, 110:102-109.
21. MacDougall-Shackleton E., MacDougall-Shackleton S. Cultural and genetic evolution in mountain white-crowned sparrows: song dialects are associated with population structure. Evolution 2001, 55:2568-2575.
22. Meher-Homji V. Udhagamandalam (Ootacamund): a biogeographic perspective. Indian Geographical Journal 1984, 59:205-213.
23. Nelson D. Geographic variation in song of Gambel's white-crowned sparrow. Behaviour 1998, 135:321-342.
24. Nelson D., Hallberg K., Soha J. Cultural evolution of Puget Sound white-crowned sparrow song dialects. Ethology 2004, 110:879-908.
25. Nicholls J.A., Austin J.J., Moritz C., Goldizen A.W., Webster M. Genetic population structure and call variation in a passerine bird, the satin bowerbird, Ptilorhynchus violaceus. Evolution 2006, 60:1279-1290.
26. Norüsis M. SPSS/PC+ Professional Statistics Version 5.0 1992, SPSS Inc, Chicago.
27. Päckert M., Martens J., Kosuch J., Nazarenko A., Veith M. Phylogenetic signal in the song of crests and kinglets (Aves: Regulus). Evolution 2003, 57:616-629.
28. Päckert M., Martens J., Sun Y., Veith M. The radiation of the Seicercus burkii complex and its congeners (Aves: Sylviidae): molecular genetics and bioacoustics. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 2004, 4:341-364.
29. Podos J. Discrimination of geographical song variants by Darwin's finches. Animal Behaviour 2007, 73:833-844.
30. Podos J., Peters S., Rudnicky T., Marler P., Nowicki S. The organization of song repertoires in song sparrows: themes and variations. Ethology 1992, 90:89-106.
31. Podos J., Huber S.K., Taft B. Bird song: the interface of evolution and mechanism. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 2004, 35:55-87.
32. Price T. Sexual selection and natural selection in bird speciation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 1998, 353:251-260.
33. Price T. Speciation in Birds 2008, Roberts, Greenwood Village, Colorado.
34. Robin V.V., Sukumar R. Status and habitat preference of white-bellied shortwing Brachypteryx major in the Western Ghats (Kerala and Tamilnadu), India. Bird Conservation International 2002, 12:335-351.
35. Robin V.V., Sukumar R., Thiollay J. Status and distribution of the white-bellied shortwing Brachypteryx major in the Western Ghats of Karnataka and Goa, India. Bird Conservation International 2006, 16:345-351.
36. Robin V.V., Sinha A., Ramakrishnan U. Ancient geographical gaps and paleo-climate shape the phylogeography of an endemic bird in the sky islands of southern India. PLoS ONE 2010, 5:e13321.
37. Ryan S.J. The role of culture in conservation planning for small or endangered populations. Conservation Biology 2006, 20:1321-1324.
38. SAS Inc JMP, Version 8.0.1 2009, SAS Institute Inc, Cary, North Carolina.
39. Shanker K., Sukumar R. Synchrony in small mammal populations of montane forest patches in southern India. Journal of Animal Ecology 1999, 68:50-59.
40. Slabbekoorn H., Smith T. Bird song, ecology and speciation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 2002, 357:493-503.
41. Warshall P. The Madrean Sky Island Archipelago: a planetary overview. Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands of Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico 1994, 6-18. United States Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, Colorado. F.L. DeBano, P.F. Ffolliott, A. Ortega-Rubio, G.J. Gottfried, R.H. Hamre (Eds.).
42. Williams L., MacRoberts M. Individual variation in songs of dark-eyed juncos. Condor 1977, 79:106-112.