Black-capped chickadees Poecile atricapillus sing at higher pitches with elevated anthropogenic noise, but not with decreasing canopy cover

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 325-332

  Proppe, Darren S ^a   Avey, Marc T ^a   Hoeschele, Marisa ^a   Moscicki, Michele K ^a   Farrell, Tara ^a   St Clair, Colleen Cassady ^a   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FOREST CANOPY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NOISE; OPEN SPACE; SONGBIRD; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; PASSERI;

EID: 84864019749     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2012.05640.x     Document Type: Article

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