Bird song and anthropogenic noise: vocal constraints may explain why birds sing higher-frequency songs in cities

Effect Sizes and the Integrative Understanding of Urban Bird Song

(2012) Erwin Nemeth et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Song repertoire size correlates with measures of body size in Eurasian blackbirds

(2012) Nana Hesler et al.   BEHAVIOUR

On the evolution of noise-dependent vocal plasticity in birds

(2012) S. Schuster et al.   Biology Letters

Rock Sparrow Song Reflects Male Age and Reproductive Success

(2012) Erwin Nemeth et al.   PLoS One

Effects of vocal learning, phonetics and inheritance on song amplitude in zebra finches

(2011) M. Ritschard et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Song amplitude affects territorial aggression of male receivers in chaffinches

(2011) H. Brumm et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The evolution of the Lombard effect: 100 years of psychoacoustic research

(2011) Henrik Brumm et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Different behavioural responses to anthropogenic noise by two closely related passerine birds

(2011) C. D. Francis et al.   Biology Letters

The Lombard effect

(2011) Sue Anne Zollinger et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Urban noise and male density affect songs in the great titParus major

(2011) S. Hamao et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Degradation of Rural and Urban Great Tit Song: Testing Transmission Efficiency

(2011) Emily J. Mockford et al.   PLoS One

Low-frequency songs lose their potency in noisy urban conditions

(2011) W. Halfwerk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Geographically pervasive effects of urban noise on frequency and syllable rate of songs and calls in silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis)

(2011) D. A. Potvin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Birds and Anthropogenic Noise: Are Urban Songs Adaptive?

(2010) Erwin Nemeth et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Behavioral Plasticity Allows Short‐Term Adjustment to a Novel Environment

(2010) Karin Gross et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Experimental evidence for real-time song frequency shift in response to urban noise in a passerine bird

(2010) E. Bermudez-Cuamatzin et al.   Biology Letters

Immediate spectral flexibility in singing chiffchaffs during experimental exposure to highway noise

(2010) M. N. Verzijden et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Enhanced testosterone levels affect singing motivation but not song structure and amplitude in Bengalese finches

(2010) M. Ritschard et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

A noisy spring: the impact of globally rising underwater sound levels on fish

(2010) Hans Slabbekoorn et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Blackbirds sing higher-pitched songs in cities: adaptation to habitat acoustics or side-effect of urbanization?

(2009) Erwin Nemeth et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Effects of signal features and environmental noise on signal detection in the great tit, Parus major

(2009) Nina U. Pohl et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A behavioural mechanism explaining noise-dependent frequency use in urban birdsong

(2009) Wouter Halfwerk et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Song amplitude and body size in birds

(2009) Henrik Brumm   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Habitat-related birdsong divergence: a multi-level study on the influence of territory density and ambient noise in European blackbirds

(2009) Erwin A. P. Ripmeester et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Developmental stress affects song learning but not song complexity and vocal amplitude in zebra finches

(2009) Henrik Brumm et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The effect of altered auditory feedback on control of vocal production in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)

(2009) Michael S. Osmanski et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Effects of urban noise on song and response behaviour in great tits

(2009) E. J. Mockford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Two-voice complexity from a single side of the syrinx in northern mockingbird Mimus polyglottos vocalizations

(2008) S. A. Zollinger et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Biomechanics and control of vocalization in a non-songbird

(2007) C. P.H Elemans et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Birdsong and anthropogenic noise: implications and applications for conservation

(2007) HANS SLABBEKOORN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY