Comparative bioacoustics: a roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa

Extant timetrees are consistent with a myriad of diversification histories

(2020) Stilianos Louca et al.   NATURE

Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Clustering Taxa through Vocalizations in a Neotropical Passerine (Rough-Legged Tyrannulet, Phyllomyias burmeisteri)

(2020) Ronald M. Parra-Hernández et al.   Animals

Tip rates, phylogenies, and diversification: what are we estimating, and how good are the estimates?

(2019) Pascal O. Title et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Polygyny is linked to accelerated birdsong evolution but not to larger song repertoires

(2019) Kate T. Snyder et al.   Nature Communications

Double quantile regression accurately assesses distance to boundary trade‐offs

(2019) Gonçalo C. Cardoso   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Coevolution of vocal signal characteristics and hearing sensitivity in forest mammals

(2019) Benjamin D. Charlton et al.   Nature Communications

Ecological and geographical overlap drive plumage evolution and mimicry in woodpeckers

(2019) Eliot T. Miller et al.   Nature Communications

Acoustic structure of forest elephant rumbles: a test of the ambiguity reduction hypothesis

(2019) Daniela Hedwig et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Be careful with your principal components

(2019) Mats Björklund   EVOLUTION

Comparative analyses of phenotypic sequences using phylogenetic trees

(2019) Daniel S. Caetano et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Assessing the similarity of song-type transitions among birds: evidence for interspecies variation

(2018) Richard W. Hedley et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The low-frequency acoustic structure of mobbing calls differs across habitat types in three passerine families

(2018) Alexis C. Billings   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Dissecting the roles of body size and beak morphology in song evolution in the “blue” cardinalids (Passeriformes: Cardinalidae)

(2018) Natalia C. García et al.   AUK

Bats are still not birds in the digital era: echolocation call variation and why it matters for bat species identification

(2018) Danilo Russo et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Global macroevolution and macroecology of passerine song

(2018) William D. Pearse et al.   EVOLUTION

A song for the South also: defining birdsong in global terms

(2018) Bo T. Bonnevie et al.   IBIS

Ancestral state, phylogenetic signal and convergence among anuran distress calls

(2018) Lucas Rodriguez Forti et al.   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

Cultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song

(2018) Robert F. Lachlan et al.   Nature Communications

An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes

(2018) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   NATURE

Song complexity—no correlation between standard deviation of frequency and traditionally used song complexity metrics in passerines: A comment on Pearse et al. (2018)

(2018) Peter Mikula et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolution of correlated complexity in the radically different courtship signals of birds-of-paradise

(2018) Russell A. Ligon et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Subharmonics increase the auditory impact of female koala rejection calls

(2017) Benjamin D. Charlton et al.   ETHOLOGY

Song evolution, speciation, and vocal learning in passerine birds

(2017) Nicholas A. Mason et al.   EVOLUTION

Burst pulses of Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) in southeastern Brazil

(2017) Luciana Guimarães de Andrade et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Automated detection of low-frequency rumbles of forest elephants: A critical tool for their conservation

(2017) Sara C. Keen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Pursuing Darwin’s curious parallel: Prospects for a science of cultural evolution

(2017) Alex Mesoudi   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cultural macroevolution matters

(2017) Russell D. Gray et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cooperative breeding influences the number and type of vocalizations in avian lineages

(2017) Gavin M. Leighton   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multivariate Phylogenetic Comparative Methods: Evaluations, Comparisons, and Recommendations

(2017) Dean C. Adams et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The use of bioacoustics in anuran taxonomy: theory, terminology, methods and recommendations for best practice

(2017) JÖRN KÖHLER et al.   ZOOTAXA

The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification

(2017) Hervé Sauquet et al.   Nature Communications

Family living sets the stage for cooperative breeding and ecological resilience in birds

(2017) Michael Griesser et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Five palaeobiological laws needed to understand the evolution of the living biota

(2017) Charles R. Marshall   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Phylogenetic ANCOVA: Estimating Changes in Evolutionary Rates as Well as Relationships between Traits

(2016) Jesualdo A. Fuentes-G. et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A fine-scale, broadly applicable index of vocal performance: frequency excursion

(2016) Jeffrey Podos et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Do birds vocalize at higher pitch in noise, or is it a matter of measurement?

(2016) Alejandro A. Ríos-Chelén et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Multiple estimation methods suggest similar repertoire sizes for Gulf Coast and eastern marsh wrens with no correlation between repertoire size and migratory distance

(2016) Sarah A.M. Luttrell et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Estimating repertoire size in a songbird: a comparison of three techniques

(2016) Alexander J. Harris et al.   BIOACOUSTICS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SOUND AND ITS RECORDING

The use of automated identification of bat echolocation calls in acoustic monitoring: A cautionary note for a sound analysis

(2016) Danilo Russo et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Coos, booms, and hoots: The evolution of closed-mouth vocal behavior in birds

(2016) Tobias Riede et al.   EVOLUTION

Environmental constraints and call evolution in torrent-dwelling frogs

(2016) Sandra Goutte et al.   EVOLUTION

Unsupervised random forest: a tutorial with case studies

(2016) Nelson Lee Afanador et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMOMETRICS

The origins and diversity of bat songs

(2016) Michael Smotherman et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Robust feature representation for classification of bird song syllables

(2016) Maria Sandsten et al.   EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

warbleR: anrpackage to streamline analysis of animal acoustic signals

(2016) Marcelo Araya-Salas et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Ancestral Reconstruction

(2016) Jeffrey B. Joy et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Can rarefaction be used to estimate song repertoire size in birds?

(2016) Kathleen R. Peshek et al.   Current Zoology

Cultural evolution of killer whale calls: background, mechanisms and consequences

(2015) Olga A. Filatova et al.   BEHAVIOUR

The effect of habitat and body size on the evolution of vocal displays in Thraupidae (tanagers), the largest family of songbirds

(2015) Nicholas A. Mason et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Positive phenotypic selection inferred from phylogenies

(2015) Joanna Baker et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Using the BirdTree.org website to obtain robust phylogenies for avian comparative studies: A primer

(2015) Diego Rubolini et al.   Current Zoology

Differentiating the evolution of female song and male-female duets in the New World blackbirds: Can tropical natural history traits explain duet evolution?

(2015) Karan J. Odom et al.   EVOLUTION

Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies

(2015) Alex Mesoudi   Evolutionary Biology

Causes of the latitudinal gradient in birdsong complexity assessed from geographical variation within two Himalayan warbler species

(2015) Pratap Singh et al.   IBIS

Does vocal learning accelerate acoustic diversification? Evolution of contact calls in Neotropical parrots

(2015) A. Medina-García et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Estimating vocal repertoire size is like collecting coupons: A theoretical framework with heterogeneity in signal abundance

(2015) Arik Kershenbaum et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The effects of life history and sexual selection on male and female plumage colouration

(2015) James Dale et al.   NATURE

Characterizing Vocal Repertoires—Hard vs. Soft Classification Approaches

(2015) Philip Wadewitz et al.   PLoS One

Phenotypic divergence during speciation is inversely associated with differences in seasonal migration

(2015) Kira E. Delmore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic Comparative Methods for Evaluating the Evolutionary History of Function-Valued Traits

(2015) Eric W. Goolsby   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Comparative Analysis of Principal Components Can be Misleading

(2015) Josef C. Uyeda et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evolutionary rates across gradients

(2015) Jason T. Weir et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Using the BirdTree.org website to obtain robust phylogenies for avian comparative studies: A primer

(2015) Diego Rubolini et al.   Current Zoology

MCMC Methods for Multi-Response Generalized Linear Mixed Models: TheMCMCglmmRPackage

(2015) Jarrod D. Hadfield   Journal of Statistical Software

The Acoustic Structure and Information Content of Female Koala Vocal Signals

(2015) Benjamin D. Charlton   PLoS One

Forgotten treasures: the fate of data in animal behaviour studies

(2014) Daniel S. Caetano et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Acoustic structure and variation in mountain and western gorilla close calls: a syntactic approach

(2014) Daniela Hedwig et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus

(2014) Arik Kershenbaum et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Cepstral peak prominence: A comprehensive analysis

(2014) Rubén Fraile et al.   Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Assessing vocal performance in complex birdsong: a novel approach

(2014) Nicole Geberzahn et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

A comparison of similarity-based approaches in the classification of flight calls of four species of North American wood-warblers (Parulidae)

(2014) Sara Keen et al.   Ecological Informatics

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

Species interactions and the structure of complex communication networks

(2014) J. A. Tobias et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Morphological basis for the evolution of acoustic diversity in oscine songbirds

(2014) T. Riede et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Generalized K Statistic for Estimating Phylogenetic Signal from Shape and Other High-Dimensional Multivariate Data

(2014) Dean C. Adams   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Female song is widespread and ancestral in songbirds

(2014) Karan J. Odom et al.   Nature Communications

BAMMtools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Uneven Sampling and the Analysis of Vocal Performance Constraints

(2013) David R. Wilson et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Using frequency ratios to study vocal communication

(2013) Gonçalo C. Cardoso   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

How do novel signals originate? The evolution of fairy-wren songs from predator to display contexts

(2013) Emma I. Greig et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Entropy rate as a measure of animal vocal complexity

(2013) Arik Kershenbaum   BIOACOUSTICS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SOUND AND ITS RECORDING

A simple explanation for the evolution of complex song syntax in Bengalese finches

(2013) K. Katahira et al.   Biology Letters

Phylogenetic signal in the acoustic parameters of the advertisement calls of four clades of anurans

(2013) Bruno Gingras et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Progressive Loss of Syntactical Structure in Bird Song along an Island Colonization Chain

(2013) Robert F. Lachlan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dance Choreography Is Coordinated with Song Repertoire in a Complex Avian Display

(2013) Anastasia H. Dalziell et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Song evolution in Maluridae: influences of natural and sexual selection on acoustic structure

(2013) Emma I. Greig et al.   EMU

ANCESTRAL CHARACTER ESTIMATION UNDER THE THRESHOLD MODEL FROM QUANTITATIVE GENETICS

(2013) Liam J. Revell   EVOLUTION

Evolution of acoustic and visual signals in Asian barbets

(2013) A. Gonzalez-Voyer et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Pitch- and spectral-based dynamic time warping methods for comparing field recordings of harmonic avian vocalizations

(2013) C Daniel Meliza et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Molecular dating of phylogenies by likelihood methods: A comparison of models and a new information criterion

(2013) Emmanuel Paradis   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic signal in primate behaviour, ecology and life history

(2013) J. M. Kamilar et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantifying and Comparing Phylogenetic Evolutionary Rates for Shape and Other High-Dimensional Phenotypic Data

(2013) Dean C. Adams   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are correlated across the largest vertebrate radiation

(2013) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Nature Communications

Two new graphical methods for mapping trait evolution on phylogenies

(2013) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Using phylogenetic information and the comparative method to evaluate hypotheses in macroecology

(2013) Cristián E. Hernández et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

On the relationship between, and measurement of, amplitude and frequency in birdsong

(2012) Sue Anne Zollinger et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Experimental comparison of representation methods and distance measures for time series data

(2012) Xiaoyue Wang et al.   DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY

CORRELATED EVOLUTION OF BEAK MORPHOLOGY AND SONG IN THE NEOTROPICAL WOODCREEPER RADIATION

(2012) Elizabeth Perrault Derryberry et al.   EVOLUTION

THE ROLE OF ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINT IN DRIVING THE EVOLUTION OF AVIAN SONG FREQUENCY ACROSS A LATITUDINAL GRADIENT

(2012) Jason T. Weir et al.   EVOLUTION

IS YOUR PHYLOGENY INFORMATIVE? MEASURING THE POWER OF COMPARATIVE METHODS

(2012) Carl Boettiger et al.   EVOLUTION

Humpback whale song hierarchical structure: Historical context and discussion of current classification issues

(2012) Danielle M. Cholewiak et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Choosing the best ancestral character state reconstruction method

(2012) Manuela Royer-Carenzi et al.   MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Comparing Evolutionary Rates for Different Phenotypic Traits on a Phylogeny Using Likelihood

(2012) Dean C. Adams   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The unbearable uncertainty of Bayesian divergence time estimation

(2012) Mario DOS REIS et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R

(2012) Richard G. FitzJohn   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

(2012) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Limitations of Phylogenies in Comparative Biology

(2011) Jonathan B. Losos   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Comparative Methods as a Statistical Fix: The Dangers of Ignoring an Evolutionary Model

(2011) Rob P. Freckleton et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Birdsong Performance and the Evolution of Simple (Rather than Elaborate) Sexual Signals

(2011) Gonçalo C. Cardoso et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

On the relation between loudness and the increased song frequency of urban birds

(2011) Gonçalo C. Cardoso et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Paradoxical calls: the opposite signaling role of sound frequency across bird species

(2011) Gonçalo C. Cardoso   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Scared and less noisy: glucocorticoids are associated with alarm call entropy

(2011) D. T. Blumstein et al.   Biology Letters

Incompletely resolved phylogenetic trees inflate estimates of phylogenetic conservatism

(2011) T. Jonathan Davies et al.   ECOLOGY

Integrating perspectives on vocal performance and consistency

(2011) J. T. Sakata et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals

(2011) Michael Dunn et al.   NATURE

The Trouble with Topology: Phylogenies without Fossils Provide a Revisionist Perspective of Evolutionary History in Topological Analyses of Diversity

(2011) James E. Tarver et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Relative comparisons of call parameters enable auditory grouping in frogs

(2011) Hamilton E. Farris et al.   Nature Communications

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Phylogenetic Targeting of Research Effort in Evolutionary Biology

(2010) Christian Arnold et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Redefining animal signaling: influence versus information in communication

(2010) Michael J. Owren et al.   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

Phylogenetic morphometrics (I): the use of landmark data in a phylogenetic framework

(2010) Santiago A. Catalano et al.   CLADISTICS

A comparison of supervised learning techniques in the classification of bat echolocation calls

(2010) David W. Armitage et al.   Ecological Informatics

Golden-marmot Alarm Calls. II. Asymmetrical Production and Perception of Situationally Specific Vocalizations?

(2010) Daniel T. Blumstein   ETHOLOGY

Social Behaviour on the Wing in the False Vampire, Megaderma lyra

(2010) Dieter Leippert   ETHOLOGY

Using Principal Components and Factor Analysis in Animal Behaviour Research: Caveats and Guidelines

(2010) Sergey V. Budaev   ETHOLOGY

EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA

(2010) Luke J Harmon et al.   EVOLUTION

TIME-DEPENDENT SPECIATION AND EXTINCTION FROM PHYLOGENIES: A LEAST SQUARES APPROACH

(2010) Emmanuel Paradis   EVOLUTION

POOR STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE MANTEL TEST IN PHYLOGENETIC COMPARATIVE ANALYSES

(2010) Luke J. Harmon et al.   EVOLUTION

General quantitative genetic methods for comparative biology: phylogenies, taxonomies and multi-trait models for continuous and categorical characters

(2010) J. D. HADFIELD et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Is horizontal transmission really a problem for phylogenetic comparative methods? A simulation study using continuous cultural traits

(2010) T. E. Currie et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution of avian syllable diversity and song length

(2010) J. T. Weir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantitative Traits and Diversification

(2010) Richard G. FitzJohn   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

(2010) Tiago B. Quental et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Recovering phylogenetic signal from frog mating calls

(2010) Noemí Goicoechea et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Can you believe my eyes? The importance of interobserver reliability statistics in observations of animal behaviour

(2009) Allison B. Kaufman et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Rates of Evolution

(2009) Philip D. Gingerich   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Song amplitude and body size in birds

(2009) Henrik Brumm   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Calls, colours, shape, and genes: a multi-trait approach to the study of geographic variation in the Amazonian frog Allobates femoralis

(2009) ADOLFO AMÉZQUITA et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Loudness of birdsong is related to the body size, syntax and phonology of passerine species

(2009) G. C. CARDOSO   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Novel vocal repertoire and paired swimbladders of the three-spined toadfish, Batrachomoeus trispinosus: insights into the diversity of the Batrachoididae

(2009) A. N. Rice et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Human language as a culturally transmitted replicator

(2009) Mark Pagel   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Inclusive heritability: combining genetic and non-genetic information to study animal behavior and culture

(2009) Étienne Danchin et al.   OIKOS

Are rates of species diversification correlated with rates of morphological evolution?

(2009) D. C. Adams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of Avian Plumage Color in a Tetrahedral Color Space: A Phylogenetic Analysis of New World Buntings

(2008) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

How Reliable are the Methods for Estimating Repertoire Size?

(2008) Carlos A. Botero et al.   ETHOLOGY

More Taxa Are Not Necessarily Better for the Reconstruction of Ancestral Character States

(2008) Guoliang Li et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Signal, Evolutionary Process, and Rate

(2008) Liam J. Revell et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Dawn song in superb fairy-wrens: a bird that seeks extrapair copulations during the dawn chorus

(2007) Anastasia H. Dalziell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR