Ambient noise increases missed detections in nestling birds

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 530-532

  Leonard, Marty L ^a   Horn, Andrew G ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Begging; Error; False alarms; Missed detections; Nesting birds

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BIRD; DETECTION METHOD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NESTLING; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

AVES; TACHYCINETA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 84860500619     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0032     Document Type: Article

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