Reply to Eens et al.: Urban noise can alter sexual selection on bird song

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Halfwerk, Wouter ^a   Bot, Sander ^b   Buikxa, Jasper ^a   Van Der Velde, Marco ^b   Komdeur, Jan ^b   Ten Cate, Carel ^a   Slabbekoorn, Hans ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BIRD; CHICK; EGG LAYING; EXTRA PAIR PATERNITY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LETTER; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SINGING; URBAN AREA;

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EID: 84857132332     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120485109     Document Type: Letter

References (6)

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