Body size correlates negatively with the frequency of distress calls and songs of Neotropical birds

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 259-268

  Martin, Joshua P ^a   Doucet, Stéphanie M ^a   Knox, Ryan C ^b   Mennill, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allometry; Bird song; Body size; Call frequency; Distress call; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 80051954519     PISSN: 02738570     EISSN: 15579263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1557-9263.2011.00329.x     Document Type: Article

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