ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2017
Higher songs of city birds may not be an individual response to noise.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Pooled it
- Species sensitivities to a global pollutant: A meta-analysis on acoustic signals in response to anthropogenic noise.Global change biology · 2021Pooled it
- Diverse relationships between amplitude and frequency in bird vocalizations.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Galápagos yellow warblers differ in behavioural plasticity in response to traffic noise depending on proximity to road.Animal behaviour · 2025Article
- Thrush nightingales adjust the peak frequency and structure of their songs in response to different types of experimental noise.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- No evidence of repeated song divergence across multiple urban and non-urban populations of dark-eyed juncos (Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- The impact of anthropogenic noise on individual identification via female song in Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus).Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment.Animal behaviour · 2020Article
- Response of Bolivian gray titi monkeys (PeerJ · 2020Article
- Acoustic adaptation to city noise through vocal learning by a songbird.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Higher songs of city birds may not be an individual response to noise.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Multiple constraints on urban bird communication: both abiotic and biotic noise shape songs in cities.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Experience modulates an insect's response to anthropogenic noise.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
It has been observed in many songbird species that populations in noisy urban areas sing with a higher minimum frequency than do matched populations in quieter, less developed areas. However, why and how this divergence occurs is not yet understood. We experimentally tested whether chronic noise exposure during vocal learning results in songs with higher minimum frequencies in great tits (
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