Staying tuned: Grasshoppers from noisy roadside habitats produce courtship signals with elevated frequency components

Functional Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1348-1354

  Lampe, Ulrike ^a   Schmoll, Tim ^a   Franzke, Alexandra ^a   Reinhold, Klaus ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Anthropogenic noise; Chorthippus biguttulus; Sexual selection; Signal masking

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; CONSPECIFIC; COURTSHIP; GRASSHOPPER; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NOISE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; AVES; CAELIFERA; CHORTHIPPUS BIGUTTULUS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84869872699     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12000     Document Type: Article

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