Geographical variation in the vocalizations of the suboscine Thorn-tailed Rayadito Aphrastura spinicauda

Ibis

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 789-805

  Ippi, Silvina ^a   Vásquez, Rodrigo A ^a   Van Dongen, Wouter F D ^a,b   Lazzoni, Ilenia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acoustic adaptation hypothesis; Bird morphology; Chile; Passeriformes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLOPATRY; BIOACOUSTICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; ISOLATED POPULATION; LEARNING; MORPHOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SUBSPECIES; VOCALIZATION;

CHILE;

APHRASTURA SPINICAUDA; AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; TYRANNI;

EID: 80052556780     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01165.x     Document Type: Article

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