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 …

Aquatic animals use and produce sound for critical life functions, including reproduction.
Anthropogenic noise is recognized as a global source of environmental pollution and …

Variation in avian diversity in space and time is commonly used as a metric to assess
environmental changes. Conventionally, such data were collected by expert observers, but …

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

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together
some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our …

In cities with intense low-frequency traffic noise, birds have been observed to sing louder
and at a higher pitch. Several studies argue that higher song pitch is an adaptation to reduce …

We tested the ability of birds to detect and discriminate natural vocal signals in the presence
of masking noise using operant conditioning. Masked thresholds were measured for …

Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; apopper@ umd. edu One
of the “problems” in working with aquatic animals is that they are not nearly as easy to …

Until relatively recently, information on the internal skull structures of fossil taxa relied on
fortuitous breaks, aggressive removal of rock matrix (Galton 1989, 2001), sectioning with a …

This paper considers aspects of the evolution of the vertebrate auditory system from an
'ichthyocentric'perspective. It is argued that all vertebrate auditory systems are required to do …