Sleepless in Town - Drivers of the Temporal Shift in Dawn Song in Urban European Blackbirds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Nordt, Anja ^a   Klenke, Reinhard ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GERMANY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT POLLUTION; NOISE POLLUTION; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SONGBIRD; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAFFIC NOISE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84881341859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071476     Document Type: Article

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