Patterns of Song across Natural and Anthropogenic Soundscapes Suggest That White-Crowned Sparrows Minimize Acoustic Masking and Maximize Signal Content.

Soundscapes pose both evolutionarily recent and long-standing sources of selection on acoustic communication. We currently know more about the impact of evolutionarily recent human-generated noise on communication than we do about how natural sounds such as pounding surf have shaped communication si...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth P Derryberry, Raymond M Danner, Julie E Danner, Graham E Derryberry, Jennifer N Phillips, Sara E Lipshutz, Katherine Gentry, David A Luther
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4851413?pdf=render