Passerine birds breeding under chronic noise experience reduced fitness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Schroeder, Julia ^a   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^a,b,c   Cleasby, Ian R ^a   Burke, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; BODY MASS; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FITNESS; FOOD INTAKE; FOSTER CARE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NESTING; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PARENTHOOD; REARING; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPARROW; TERRITORIALITY; URBAN AREA;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; ISLANDS; MALE; NOISE; REPRODUCTION; SPARROWS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84863850524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039200     Document Type: Article

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