Song trait similarity in great tits varies with social structure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Snijders, Lysanne ^a,b   Van Der Eijk, Jerine ^a   Van Rooij, Erica P ^a   De Goede, Piet ^b   Van Oers, Kees ^b   Naguib, Marc ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; AUTOMATION; FERTILITY; MALE; NEIGHBORHOOD; NONHUMAN; PARUS MAJOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGING; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; EGG LAYING; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN RELATION; MUSIC; PASSERIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MUSIC; OVIPOSITION; PASSERIFORMES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84923379279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116881     Document Type: Article

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