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Bustamante N, Garitano-Zavala Á. Natural Patterns in the Dawn and Dusk Choruses of a Neotropical Songbird in Relation to an Urban Sound Environment. Animals (Basel) 2024; 14:646. [PMID: 38396616 PMCID: PMC10886165 DOI: 10.3390/ani14040646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2024] [Revised: 02/13/2024] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
Abstract
Urbanization is one of the more important phenomena affecting biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Some organisms can cope with urban challenges, and changes in birds' acoustic communication have been widely studied. Although changes in the timing of the daily organization of acoustic communication have been previously reported, there is a significant gap regarding possible variations in song structure between dawn and dusk choruses. Considering that urbanization imposes different soundscapes for dawn and dusk choruses, we postulate two hypotheses: (i) there are variations in song parameters between dawn and dusk choruses, and (ii) such parameters within the city will vary in response to urban noise. We studied urban and extra-urban populations of Chiguanco Thrush in La Paz, Bolivia, measuring in dawn and dusk choruses: song length; song sound pressure level; minimum, maximum, range and dominant frequency; and the number of songs per individual. The results support our two hypotheses: there were more songs, and songs were louder and had larger band widths at dawn than at dusk in urban and extra-urban populations. Urban Chiguanco Thrushes sing less, the frequency of the entire song rises, and the amplitude increases as compared with extra-urban Chiguanco Thrushes. Understanding variations between dawn and dusk choruses could allow for a better interpretation of how some bird species cope with urban challenges.
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- Noelia Bustamante
- Carrera de Biología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz P. O. Box 10077, Bolivia
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Moss JB, Tumulty JP, Fischer EK. Evolution of acoustic signals associated with cooperative parental behavior in a poison frog. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2218956120. [PMID: 37071680 PMCID: PMC10151463 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2218956120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2022] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 04/19/2023] Open
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The emergence of complex social interactions is predicted to be an important selective force in the diversification of communication systems. Parental care presents a key social context in which to study the evolution of novel signals, as care often requires communication and behavioral coordination between parents and is an evolutionary stepping-stone toward increasingly complex social systems. Anuran amphibians (frogs and toads) are a classic model of acoustic communication and the vocal repertoires of many species have been characterized in the contexts of advertisement, courtship, and aggression, yet quantitative descriptions of calls elicited in the context of parental care are lacking. The biparental poison frog, Ranitomeya imitator, exhibits a remarkable parenting behavior in which females, cued by the calls of their male partners, feed tadpoles unfertilized eggs. Here, we characterized and compared calls across three social contexts, for the first time including a parental care context. We found that egg-feeding calls share some properties with both advertisement and courtship calls but also had unique properties. Multivariate analysis revealed high classification success for advertisement and courtship calls but misclassified nearly half of egg feeding calls as either advertisement or courtship calls. Egg feeding and courtship calls both contained less identity information than advertisement calls, as expected for signals used in close-range communication where uncertainty about identity is low and additional signal modalities may be used. Taken together, egg-feeding calls likely borrowed and recombined elements of both ancestral call types to solicit a novel, context-dependent parenting response.
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- Jeanette B. Moss
- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL61801
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- Department of Biology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA23185
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL61801
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Reichard DG, Atwell JW, Pandit MM, Cardoso GC, Price TD, Ketterson ED. Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment. Anim Behav 2020; 170:33-41. [PMID: 33208979 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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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, Junco hyemalis thurberi, from two populations (urban and mountain) soon after they reached independence (aged 25-40 days), raised them in identical indoor aviaries and studied their songs at an age of 3 years. We found that the large population difference in minimum frequency observed in the field persisted undiminished in the common garden despite the absence of noise. We also found some song sharing between the common garden and natal field populations, indicating that early song memorization before capture could contribute to the persistent song differences in adulthood. These results are the first to show that frequency shifts in urban birdsong are maintained in the absence of noise by genetic evolution and/or early life experiences.
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- Dustin G Reichard
- Department of Zoology, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH, U.S.A.,Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.,Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, U.S.A
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- CIBIO-InBIO, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.,Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, U.S.A
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The low-frequency acoustic structure of mobbing calls differs across habitat types in three passerine families. Anim Behav 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Davidson BM, Antonova G, Dlott H, Barber JR, Francis CD. Natural and anthropogenic sounds reduce song performance: insights from two emberizid species. Behav Ecol 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arx036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Brumm H, Zollinger SA, Niemelä PT, Sprau P. Measurement artefacts lead to false positives in the study of birdsong in noise. Methods Ecol Evol 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Henrik Brumm
- Communication and Social Behaviour Group Max Planck Institute for Ornithology 82319 Seewiesen Germany
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- Communication and Social Behaviour Group Max Planck Institute for Ornithology 82319 Seewiesen Germany
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- Behavioural Ecology, Department of Biology Ludwig‐Maximilians‐University Munich 82152 Planegg‐Martinsried Germany
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- Behavioural Ecology, Department of Biology Ludwig‐Maximilians‐University Munich 82152 Planegg‐Martinsried Germany
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Xing X, Slabbekoorn H, Campbell J, Li F, Ma J. Distinct song parts of the endemic marsh grassbird of China vary with latitude and climate among migratory and sedentary populations. Evol Ecol 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s10682-016-9879-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Ríos-Chelén AA, McDonald AN, Berger A, Perry AC, Krakauer AH, Patricelli GL. Do birds vocalize at higher pitch in noise, or is it a matter of measurement? Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2243-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Guo F, Bonebrake TC, Dingle C. Low frequency dove coos vary across noise gradients in an urbanized environment. Behav Processes 2016; 129:86-93. [DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2016.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2015] [Revised: 05/23/2016] [Accepted: 06/02/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Ríos-Chelén AA, Lee GC, Patricelli GL. A comparison between two ways to measure minimum frequency and an experimental test of vocal plasticity in red-winged blackbirds in response to noise. BEHAVIOUR 2016. [DOI: 10.1163/1568539x-00003390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We examined whether red-winged blackbirds modulate their vocalizations in response to experimental highway noise, alternating between ambient-control and noise-playback periods. Our measures of song duration were shorter, and with a lower value of freq5% (a measure of energy distribution), during noise-playback; however, we interpret these results as noise-induced artefacts. This apparent lack of vocal plasticity should be taken cautiously because we had a small sample size and most birds produced only one song type: song type-related vocal plasticity was unlikely to be found. We found no evidence of a shift in minimum frequency with noise when this was measured with a threshold method on power spectra, but it seemed to increase when measured by eye from spectrograms. Our results suggest that the by-eye practice can lead to bias, which is problematic as several previous studies have used this procedure. Use of the threshold method, over the by-eye practice, is encouraged.
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- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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Narango DL, Rodewald AD. Urban-associated drivers of song variation along a rural–urban gradient. Behav Ecol 2015. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arv197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Song divergence between subspecies of reed bunting is more pronounced in singing styles under sexual selection. Anim Behav 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.06.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Reichard DG, Anderson RC. Why signal softly? The structure, function and evolutionary significance of low-amplitude signals. Anim Behav 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.04.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Anthropogenic noise is associated with changes in acoustic but not visual signals in red-winged blackbirds. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-015-1928-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Stowell D, Plumbley MD. Large-scale analysis of frequency modulation in birdsong data bases. Methods Ecol Evol 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Dan Stowell
- Centre for Digital Music; Queen Mary University of London; Mile End Road London E1 4NS UK
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- Centre for Digital Music; Queen Mary University of London; Mile End Road London E1 4NS UK
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