Publications of the research group "Animal Communication and Urban Ecology"

Brumm, H.: Song amplitude and body size in birds. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63 (8), pp. 1157 - 1165 (2009)

Brumm, H.; Lachlan, R. F.; Riebel, K.; Slater, P. J. B.: On the function of song type repertoires: Testing the "antiexhaustion hypothesis" in chaffinches. Animal Behaviour 77 (1), pp. 37 - 42 (2009)

Brumm, H.; Naguib, M.: Environmental acoustics and the evolution of bird song. Advances in the Study of Behavior, pp. 1 - 33 (2009)

Brumm, H.; Schmidt, R.; Schrader, L.: Noise-dependent vocal plasticity in domestic fowl. Animal Behaviour 78 (3), pp. 741 - 746 (2009)

Brumm, H.; Zollinger, S. A.; Slater, P. J. B.: Developmental stress affects song learning but not song complexity and vocal amplitude in zebra finches. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63 (9), pp. 1387 - 1395 (2009)

Nemeth, E.; Brumm, H.: Blackbirds sing higher-pitched songs in cities: Adaptation to habitat acoustics or side-effect of urbanization? Animal Behaviour 78 (3), pp. 637 - 641 (2009)

Roth, T.; Sprau, P.; Schmidt, R.; Naguib, M.; Amrhein, V.: Sex specific timing of mate searching and territory prospecting in the nightingale: Nocturnal life of females. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1664), pp. 2045 - 2050 (2009)

Samarra, F. I. P.; Klappert, K.; Brumm, H.; Miller, P. J. O.: Background noise constrains communication: Acoustic masking of courtship song in the fruit fly Drosophila montana. Behaviour 146 (12), pp. 1635 - 1648 (2009)