Flexibility in animal signals facilitates adaptation to rapidly changing environments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Proppe, Darren S ^a   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a   St Clair, Colleen Cassady ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HABITAT; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; POECILE ATRICAPILLUS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL DETECTION; SONGBIRD; SOUND TRANSMISSION; URBAN AREA; VOCALIZATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NOISE; PASSERIFORMES; TRANSPORTATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80053233993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025413     Document Type: Article

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