Publisher Summary Environmental noise can affect acoustic communication through limiting
the broadcast area, or active space, of a signal by decreasing signal-to-noise ratios at the …

The dramatic increase in human activities all over the world has caused, on an evolutionary
time scale, a sudden rise in especially low‐pitched noise levels. Ambient noise may be …

The origin of biological diversity, via the formation of new species, can be inextricably linked
to adaptation to the ecological environment. Specifically, ecological processes are central to …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Birds sing at a higher pitch in urban noise | Nature Skip to main content Thank you for visiting
nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best …

1. The impact of environmental background noise on the performance of territorial songs
was examined in free-ranging nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos Brehm). An analysis of …

Urbanization leads to homogenization of avian communities through local extinction of rare
bird species and increasing numbers of the same common urban bird species over large …

Chemical signals are omnipresent in sexual communication in the vast majority of living
organisms. The traditional paradigm was that their main purpose in sexual behaviour was to …

The study of bird song dialects was once considered the most promising approach for
investigating the role of behaviour in reproductive divergence and speciation. However, after …

The acoustic environment has a major influence in sha** animal communication systems.
Humans, particularly in cities, profoundly alter the acoustic structure of their environment …