A global analysis of song frequency in passerines provides no support for the acoustic adaptation hypothesis but suggests a role for sexual selection

Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers—Collection 2

(2020) Marcel Buchhorn et al.   Remote Sensing

Females don't always sing in response to male song, but when they do, they sing to males with higher-pitched songs

(2020) Alexander N.G. Kirschel et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Female solo song and duetting are associated with different territoriality in songbirds

(2019) Peter Mikula et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Global macroevolution and macroecology of passerine song

(2018) William D. Pearse et al.   EVOLUTION

R 2s for Correlated Data: Phylogenetic Models, LMMs, and GLMMs

(2018) Anthony R Ives   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Body Size Predicts Echolocation Call Peak Frequency Better than Gape Height in Vespertilionid Bats

(2017) Jeneni Thiagavel et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2016) Tobias Riede et al.   EVOLUTION

Rphylopars: fast multivariate phylogenetic comparative methods for missing data and within-species variation

(2016) Eric W. Goolsby et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Song pitch indicates body size and correlates with males' response to playback in a songbird

(2015) Pavel Linhart et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Multimodal signalling in an antelope: fluctuating facemasks and knee-clicks reveal the social status of eland bulls

(2015) Jakob Bro-Jørgensen et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The functional morphology of male courtship displays in the Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)

(2015) Tobias Riede et al.   AUK

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

Evolution of leaf warbler songs (Aves: Phylloscopidae)

(2015) Dieter Thomas Tietze et al.   Ecology and Evolution

How acoustic signals scale with individual body size: common trends across diverse taxa

(2014) Rafael L. Rodríguez et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Elaborate visual and acoustic signals evolve independently in a large, phenotypically diverse radiation of songbirds

(2014) N. A. Mason et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Linear-Time Algorithm for Gaussian and Non-Gaussian Trait Evolution Models

(2014) Lam si Tung Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Female song is widespread and ancestral in songbirds

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

Imputation of missing data in life-history trait datasets: which approach performs the best?

(2014) Caterina Penone et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

How a songbird with a continuous singing style modulates its song when territorially challenged

(2013) Nicole Geberzahn et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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

(2013) Emma I. Greig et al.   EMU

Predicting bird song from space

(2013) Thomas B. Smith et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Evolution of acoustic and visual signals in Asian barbets

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

Male Songbird Indicates Body Size with Low-Pitched Advertising Songs

(2013) Michelle L. Hall et al.   PLoS One

Two new graphical methods for mapping trait evolution on phylogenies

(2013) Liam J. Revell   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

THE “ACOUSTIC ADAPTATION HYPOTHESIS”—A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE FROM BIRDS, ANURANS AND MAMMALS

(2012) E. EY et al.   BIOACOUSTICS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SOUND AND ITS RECORDING

rangeMapper: a platform for the study of macroecology of life-history traits

(2012) Mihai Valcu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Tradeoffs limit the evolution of male traits that are attractive to females

(2012) W. E. Wagner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Soundscape Ecology: The Science of Sound in the Landscape

(2011) Bryan C. Pijanowski et al.   BIOSCIENCE

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

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

A brief guide to model selection, multimodel inference and model averaging in behavioural ecology using Akaike’s information criterion

(2010) Matthew R. E. Symonds et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

phangorn: phylogenetic analysis in R

(2010) Klaus Peter Schliep   BIOINFORMATICS

Quality prevails over identity in the sexually selected vocalisations of an ageing mammal

(2010) Elodie Briefer et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Energetic cost of calling: general constraints and species-specific differences

(2010) A. G. OPHIR et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The energetic basis of acoustic communication

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

Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

(2010) Holger Schielzeth   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data

(2010) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Insights from comparative analyses of aging in birds and mammals

(2009) Robert E. Ricklefs   AGING CELL

Birdsong tuned to the environment: green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise

(2009) Alexander N. G. Kirschel et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

THE GENETIC BASIS OF ZEBRA FINCH VOCALIZATIONS

(2009) Wolfgang Forstmeier et al.   EVOLUTION

Low Frequency Groans Indicate Larger and More Dominant Fallow Deer (Dama dama) Males

(2008) Elisabetta Vannoni et al.   PLoS One

Missing inaction: the dangers of ignoring missing data

(2008) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION