Birds and anthropogenic noise: Singing higher may matter: (A Comment on Nemeth and Brumm, "Birds and Anthropogenic Noise: Are Urban Songs Adaptive?")

American Naturalist

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 142-145

  Slabbekoorn, Hans ^a   Yang, Xiao Jing ^b   Halfwerk, Wouter ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; NOISE; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; NOISE; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84862147070     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/665991     Document Type: Note

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