Publications of the research group "Animal Communication and Urban Ecology"
Journal Article (71)
2024
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Observations on the breeding biology of D’Arnaud’s Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii. Ostrich (2024)
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165 (3), pp. 615 - 625 (2024)
Do the rain calls of Chaffinches indicate rain? Journal of Ornithology 2023
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290 (2005), 20230496 (2023)
Territorial behaviour of thrush nightingales outside the breeding season. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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164 (4), pp. 835 - 844 (2023)
Bursts of white noise trigger song in domestic Canaries. Journal of Ornithology
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45 (2), 2200173 (2023)
Biological sex is binary, even though there is a rainbow of sex roles. Denying biological sex is anthropocentric and promotes species chauvinism. Bioessays 2022
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289 (1982), 20220906 (2022)
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
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289 (1971), 20220058 (2022)
The broken-wing display across birds and the conditions for its evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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805, 150223 (2022)
Artificial light at night and anthropogenic noise alter the foraging activity and structure of vertebrate communities. Science of the Total Environment 2021
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7 (20), eabe2405 (2021)
Traffic noise disrupts vocal development and suppresses immune function. Science Advances
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12 (9), e03733 (2021)
Testing the strength and direction of selection on vocal frequency using metabolic scaling theory. Ecosphere
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75 (1), 3 (2021)
Chronic exposure to urban noise during the vocal learning period does not lead to increased song frequencies in zebra finches. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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24 (3), pp. 477 - 486 (2021)
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
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27 (17), pp. 3987 - 4004 (2021)
Artificial night light and anthropogenic noise interact to influence bird abundance over a continental scale. Global Change Biology 2020
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16 (8), 20200399 (2020)
Group living facilitates the evolution of duets in barbets. Biology Letters 2019
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73 (2), 19 (2019)
Nocturnal resting behaviour in urban great tits and its relation to anthropogenic disturbance and microclimate. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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7 (1), coz056 (2019)
Traffic noise exposure depresses plasma corticosterone and delays offspring growth in breeding zebra finches. Conservation Physiology 2018
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146, pp. 23 - 30 (2018)
The function of collective signalling in a cuckoo. Animal Behaviour
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49 (1), jav.01564 (2018)
Vocal plasticity in mallards: Multiple signal changes in noise and the evolution of the Lombard effect in birds. Journal of Avian Biology
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15, 29 (2018)
Timing matters: Traffic noise accelerates telomere loss rate differently across developmental stages. Frontiers in Zoology
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40 (5), 1800030 (2018)
Let’s talk about sex - Not gender. Bioessays
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8, 5042 (2018)
Repeatability and degree of territorial aggression differs among urban and rural great tits (Parus major). Scientific Reports 2017
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158 (3), pp. 669 - 678 (2017)
On the natural history of duetting in White-browed Coucals: Sex- and body-size-dependent differences in a collective vocal display. Journal of Ornithology
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284 (1855), 20170451 (2017)
Vocal plasticity in a reptile. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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8 (11), pp. 1617 - 1625 (2017)
Measurement artefacts lead to false positives in the study of birdsong in noise. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
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220 (6), pp. 1065 - 1071 (2017)
Lombard effect onset times reveal the speed of vocal plasticity in a songbird. The Journal of Experimental Biology
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18 (1), pp. 159 - 170 (2017)
Slow motion extinction: Inbreeding, introgression, and loss in the critically endangered mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates). Conservation Genetics
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284 (1860), 20170602 (2017)
Higher songs of city birds may not be an individual response to noise. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2016
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27 (5), pp. 1277 - 1278 (2016)
A meta-analytic castle built on sand? A comment on Roca et al. Behavioral Ecology
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6 (17), pp. 6151 - 6159 (2016)
Airport noise predicts song timing of European birds. Ecology and Evolution
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3 (7), 160231 (2016)
Anthropogenic noise, but not artificial light levels predicts song behaviour in an equatorial bird. Royal Society Open Science
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26 (22), pp. R1173 - R1174 (2016)
Traffic noise drowns out great tit alarm calls. Current Biology 2015
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6, 8978 (2015)
Universal mechanisms of sound production and control in birds and mammals. Nature Communications
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5, 18556 (2015)
Linking the sender to the receiver: Vocal adjustments by bats to maintain signal detection in noise. Scientific Reports
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105, pp. 289 - 295 (2015)
Why birds sing loud songs and why they sometimes don't. Animal Behaviour 2014
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25 (5), pp. 1033 - 1034 (2014)
Fish struggle to be heard – but just how much fin waving is there? Behavioral Ecology
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11, 48 (2014)
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 2013
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6, pp. 55 - 85 (2013)
O Canto do Uirapuru: Consonant intervals and patterns in the song of the musician wren. Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies
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280 (1754), 20122798 (2013)
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 2012
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24 (1), pp. 25 - 38 (2012)
Biomusic and popular culture: The use of animal sounds in the music of the Beatles. Journal of Popular Music Studies
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7 (12), e51881 (2012)
Juvenile Galapagos pelicans increase their foraging success by copying adult behaviour. PLoS One
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46 (1), pp. 78 - 86 (2012)
Distribution and abundance of Darwin's finches and other land birds on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos: Evidence for declining populations. Oryx
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7 (8), e43259 (2012)
Rock sparrow song reflects male age and reproductive success. PLoS One
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180 (1), pp. 146 - 152 (2012)
Effect sizes and the integrative understanding of urban bird song (A reply to Slabbekoorn et al.). American Naturalist
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26 (4), pp. 801 - 812 (2012)
Zebra finch song reflects current food availability. Evolutionary Ecology
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118 (2), pp. 197 - 202 (2012)
Song amplitude of rival males modulates the territorial behaviour of great tits during the fertile period of their mates. Ethology
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8 (6), pp. 913 - 916 (2012)
On the evolution of noise-dependent vocal plasticity in birds. Biology Letters
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84 (4), pp. E1 - E9 (2012)
On the relationship between, and measurement of, amplitude and frequency in birdsong. Animal Behaviour 2011
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22 (2), pp. 310 - 316 (2011)
Song amplitude affects territorial aggression of male receivers in chaffinches. Behavioral Ecology
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81 (3), pp. 653 - 659 (2011)
Singing direction as a tool to investigate the function of birdsong: An experiment on sedge warblers. Animal Behaviour
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148 (11-13), pp. 1173 - 1198 (2011)
The evolution of the Lombard effect: 100 years of psychoacoustic research. Behaviour