Team of rivals: Alliance formation in territorial songbirds is predicted by vocal signal structure

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Goodwin, Sarah E ^a   Podos, Jeffrey ^b  

^a Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Chipping sparrow; Coalition; Communication network; Cooperation; Vocal performance

Indexed keywords

POPULATION GENETICS; RESIDENT POPULATION; SIGNALING; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRDSONG; CHIPPING SPARROW; COALITION; COMMUNICATION NETWORK; COOPERATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPARROW; TERRITORIALITY; UNITED STATES; VOCAL PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION;

BIRDSONG; CHIPPING SPARROW; COALITION; COMMUNICATION NETWORK; COOPERATION; VOCAL PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPARROWS; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84896507363     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.1083     Document Type: Article

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