Publications of the research group "Animal Communication and Urban Ecology"
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2025
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A comparative analysis of song amplitude across and within bird species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292 (2051), 20251088 (2025)
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Macroecological variation and subspecies divergence in fiery-necked nightjar songs. Bioacoustics 34 (5), pp. 656 - 671 (2025)
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The songs of screaming birds are less sophisticated than whisperers. The Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (15), jeb250950 (2025)
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Picky city frogs: Urban noise and light indirectly affect mate choice. Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (3), JEB249925 (2025)
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Latitudinal variation in the timing of nest predator activity is habitat specific. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34 (1), e13945 (2025)
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Decoding the chaffinch “rain” call: A female-directed alarm call? Behavioral Ecology 36 (4), araf039 (2025)
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Stream noise induces song plasticity and a shift to visual signals in a riverine songbird. Current Biology 35 (18), pp. 4570 - 4576 (2025)
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Vocal constraints on song amplitude in star finches Bathilda ruficauda. PeerJ 13, e19705 (2025)
2024
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Observations on the breeding biology of D’Arnaud’s Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii. Ostrich 95 (3), pp. 227 - 232 (2024)
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Do the rain calls of Chaffinches indicate rain? Journal of Ornithology 165 (3), pp. 615 - 625 (2024)
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Geschlecht und Gender: Eine biologische Perspektive. Biologie in unserer Zeit 54 (4), pp. 344 - 352 (2024)
2023
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Territorial behaviour of thrush nightingales outside the breeding season. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290 (2005), 20230496 (2023)
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ECR Spotlight – Léna de Framond. The Journal of Experimental Biology 226 (18), jeb246731 (2023)
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Bursts of white noise trigger song in domestic Canaries. Journal of Ornithology 164 (4), pp. 835 - 844 (2023)
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Biological sex is binary, even though there is a rainbow of sex roles. Denying biological sex is anthropocentric and promotes species chauvinism. Bioessays 45 (2), 2200173 (2023)
2022
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Long-term effects of noise pollution on the avian dawn chorus: A natural experiment facilitated by the closure of an international airport. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289 (1982), 20220906 (2022)
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The broken-wing display across birds and the conditions for its evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289 (1971), 20220058 (2022)
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Artificial light at night and anthropogenic noise alter the foraging activity and structure of vertebrate communities. Science of the Total Environment 805, 150223 (2022)
2021
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Traffic noise disrupts vocal development and suppresses immune function. Science Advances 7 (20), eabe2405 (2021)
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Testing the strength and direction of selection on vocal frequency using metabolic scaling theory. Ecosphere 12 (9), e03733 (2021)
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Chronic exposure to urban noise during the vocal learning period does not lead to increased song frequencies in zebra finches. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75 (1), 3 (2021)
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A global analysis of song frequency in passerines provides no support for the acoustic adaptation hypothesis but suggests a role for sexual selection. Ecology Letters 24 (3), pp. 477 - 486 (2021)
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Artificial night light and anthropogenic noise interact to influence bird abundance over a continental scale. Global Change Biology 27 (17), pp. 3987 - 4004 (2021)
2020
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Group living facilitates the evolution of duets in barbets. Biology Letters 16 (8), 20200399 (2020)
2019
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Nocturnal resting behaviour in urban great tits and its relation to anthropogenic disturbance and microclimate. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73 (2), 19 (2019)
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Traffic noise exposure depresses plasma corticosterone and delays offspring growth in breeding zebra finches. Conservation Physiology 7 (1), coz056 (2019)
2018
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The function of collective signalling in a cuckoo. Animal Behaviour 146, pp. 23 - 30 (2018)
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Vocal plasticity in mallards: Multiple signal changes in noise and the evolution of the Lombard effect in birds. Journal of Avian Biology 49 (1), jav.01564 (2018)
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Timing matters: Traffic noise accelerates telomere loss rate differently across developmental stages. Frontiers in Zoology 15, 29 (2018)
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Let’s talk about sex - Not gender. Bioessays 40 (5), 1800030 (2018)
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Repeatability and degree of territorial aggression differs among urban and rural great tits (Parus major). Scientific Reports 8, 5042 (2018)
2017
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On the natural history of duetting in White-browed Coucals: Sex- and body-size-dependent differences in a collective vocal display. Journal of Ornithology 158 (3), pp. 669 - 678 (2017)
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Vocal plasticity in a reptile. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1855), 20170451 (2017)
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Measurement artefacts lead to false positives in the study of birdsong in noise. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8 (11), pp. 1617 - 1625 (2017)
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Lombard effect onset times reveal the speed of vocal plasticity in a songbird. Journal of Experimental Biology 220 (6), pp. 1065 - 1071 (2017)
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Slow motion extinction: Inbreeding, introgression, and loss in the critically endangered mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates). Conservation Genetics 18 (1), pp. 159 - 170 (2017)
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Higher songs of city birds may not be an individual response to noise. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1860), 20170602 (2017)
2016
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A meta-analytic castle built on sand? A comment on Roca et al. Behavioral Ecology 27 (5), pp. 1277 - 1278 (2016)
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Airport noise predicts song timing of European birds. Ecology and Evolution 6 (17), pp. 6151 - 6159 (2016)
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Anthropogenic noise, but not artificial light levels predicts song behaviour in an equatorial bird. Royal Society Open Science 3 (7), 160231 (2016)
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Traffic noise drowns out great tit alarm calls. Current Biology 26 (22), pp. R1173 - R1174 (2016)
2015
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Universal mechanisms of sound production and control in birds and mammals. Nature Communications 6, 8978 (2015)
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Linking the sender to the receiver: Vocal adjustments by bats to maintain signal detection in noise. Scientific Reports 5, 18556 (2015)
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Why birds sing loud songs and why they sometimes don't. Animal Behaviour 105, pp. 289 - 295 (2015)
2014
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Fish struggle to be heard – but just how much fin waving is there? Behavioral Ecology 25 (5), pp. 1033 - 1034 (2014)
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Hard times in the city - Attractive nest sites but insufficient food supply lead to low reproduction rates in a bird of prey. Frontiers in Zoology 11, 48 (2014)
2013
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O Canto do Uirapuru: Consonant intervals and patterns in the song of the musician wren. Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies 6, pp. 55 - 85 (2013)
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Bird song and anthropogenic noise: Vocal constraints may explain why birds sing higher-frequency songs in cities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1754), 20122798 (2013)
2012
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Biomusic and popular culture: The use of animal sounds in the music of the Beatles. Journal of Popular Music Studies 24 (1), pp. 25 - 38 (2012)
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Juvenile Galapagos pelicans increase their foraging success by copying adult behaviour. PLoS One 7 (12), e51881 (2012)