The importance of invertebrates when considering the impacts of anthropogenic noise

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1776, 2013, Pages

  Morley, Erica L ^a,b   Jones, Gareth ^a   Radford, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental change; Fitness; Hearing; Insect; Noise quantification; Pollution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; INVERTEBRATE; NOISE POLLUTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

EID: 84890045033     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2683     Document Type: Article

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