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Article: Studies from University of California provide new data on behavioral ecology.(Report)
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- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- October 23, 2009
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"Animals that communicate acoustically must compete for acoustic space in order to convey their signals effectively. Tropical rainforest birds live in an extremely diverse acoustic community consisting of other birds, mammals, frogs, and many insects," scientists writing in the journal Behavioral Ecology report.
"Insects are notable for often producing continuous bands of sound energy at constant frequencies, which vary between species and across habitats. We examined how green hylia (Hylia prasina) song frequencies correlate to insect-generated spectral profiles of ambient noise. We also examined how the environment influenced song frequency by using remote ...