Songs of the city: Noise-dependent spectral plasticity in the acoustic phenotype of urban birds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1089-1099

  Slabbekoorn, Hans ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic noise; Behavioural plasticity; Birdsong; Conservation; Cultural evolution; Synurbic species

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; BIRD; FITNESS; LOCAL EXTINCTION; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; RARE SPECIES; SIGNAL; SONG; SPECIES CONSERVATION; URBANIZATION;

AVES;

EID: 84877595443     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.01.021     Document Type: Article

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