ArticleAnimal behaviour2020
Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment.
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- The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Pooled it
- Evolution under the city's shadow: reproductive divergence of urban and rural great tits revealed by a common garden experiment.Evolution letters · 2026Article
- Can you hear me? House sparrow auditory processing differs across an urbanization gradient.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Article
- Behavioral convergence under urbanization: An overlooked dimension of biotic homogenization.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Gene expression plasticity in response to rapid and extreme elevation changes in Perdix hodgsoniae (Tibetan Partridge).Ornithological applications · 2025Article
- Natural Patterns in the Dawn and Dusk Choruses of a Neotropical Songbird in Relation to an Urban Sound Environment.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Anthropogenic Change and the Process of Speciation.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2023Review
- Environmental conditions lead to shifts in individual communication, which can cause cascading effects on soundscape composition.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Review
- No evidence of repeated song divergence across multiple urban and non-urban populations of dark-eyed juncos (Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Modeling how population size drives the evolution of birdsong, a functional cultural trait.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Constant Resting Frequency and Auditory Midbrain Neuronal Frequency Analysis ofFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Acoustic preadaptation to transmit vocal individuality of savanna nightjars in noisy urban environments.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Environmental changes caused by urbanization and noise pollution can have profound effects on acoustic communication. Many organisms use higher sound frequencies in urban environments with low-frequency noise, but the developmental and evolutionary mechanisms underlying these shifts are generally unknown. We used a common garden experiment to ask whether changes in minimum song frequency observed 30 years after a songbird colonized an urban environment are a consequence of behavioural flexibility. We captured male juvenile dark-eyed juncos,
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