First, we demonstrate that Metabolic Theory of Ecology predicts the relationship between the natural log of body size and natural log of vocal frequency across 795 bird species, controlling for phylogeny...
Divergence in acoustic signals plays an important role in the production and maintenance of biodiversity in numerous taxa. In this study, we assess patterns of acoustic divergence in geographically isolated and sympatric subspecies of barn swallows …
Acoustic signals mediate mate choice, resource defense, and species recognition in a broad range of taxa. It has been proposed, therefore, that divergence in acoustic signals plays a key role in speciation. Nonetheless, the processes driving …