The progressive loss of syntactical structure in bird song along an Island colonization chain

Current Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 1896-1901

  Lachlan, Robert F ^a,b,c   Verzijden, Machteld N ^b,d   Bernard, Caroline S ^b   Jonker, Peter Paul ^b   Koese, Bram ^b   Jaarsma, Shirley ^b   Spoor, Willemijn ^b   Slater, Peter J B ^c   Ten Cate, Carel ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA COELEBS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FINCH; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FINCHES; LEARNING; POPULATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84885290480     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.057     Document Type: Article

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