The honesty of bird song: multiple constraints for multiple traits

By Diego Gil, M. Gahr. 2002

687 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Developmental Biology

1. H. Brumm
2. B. Ballentine
3. J. Podos
4. M. Ritschard
5. S. Nowicki
6. E. Hebets
7. P. J. Slater
8. K. Riebel

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. H. Brumm
2. B. Ballentine
3. J. Podos
4. M. Ritschard
5. L. Garamszegi
6. A. Møller
7. E. Hebets
8. S. Nowicki

Citations in the corpus

• Not so sexy in the city: urban birds adjust songs to noise but compromise vocal performance (2016, neutral): “For many taxa, the ability of the signaler to produce physically challenging signals may also be an indicator of condition (Nowicki et al. 1992; Gil and Gahr 2002; Podos and Nowicki 2004).”
• The costs of singing in nightingales (2002, background): “Bird vocalizations require muscular activity in the respiratory system, as well as neural activity in the song centres of the brain (Gil & Gahr 2002), and the important question is whether this contributes to a significant proportion of the bird’s overall energy budget.”
• Preferred songs predict preferred males: consistency and repeatability of zebra finch females across three test contexts (2007, background): “High syllable rates are associated with increased male attractiveness (reviewed in Gil & Gahr 2002) and may signal male quality since fast singing patterns are hypothesized to require more vocalerespiratory coordination (Goller & Daley 2001; Gil & Gahr 2002 ) and fast syllable delivery is more dema”
• The evolution of geographic variation in birdsong (2007, background): “Instead, vocal features may be evolutionarily conserved when they are subject to multiple evolutionary pressures (Beecher and Brenowitz, 2005; Gil and Gahr, 2002; Nowicki and Podos, 1993).”
• Heritability and the evolution of cognitive traits (2015, background): “…song and song learning, including the complexity of song, as well as speed and accuracy of song learning (Catchpole 1980; Searcy and Andersson 1986; Gil and Gahr 2002; Riebel 2009), are assumed to be under sexual selection, yet for this to be the case, variation in these traits must be heritable.”
• Accuracy of song syntax learning and singing consistency signal early condition in zebra finches (2008, background): “Evidence for condition dependence of other song features is as yet scant or even controversial (Gil and Gahr 2002; ten Cate et al. 2002).”
• Rethinking birdsong evolution: meta-analysis of the relationship between song complexity and reproductive success (2011, methodology): “Accordingly, a number of field and laboratory studies have reported that complex songs may serve as indicators of male quality and thus should translate into mating and ultimately breeding success (Searcy and Andersson 1986; Searcy 1992; MacDougall-Shackleton 1997; Gil and Gahr 2002; Catchpole and S”
• Strategies of song adaptation to urban noise in the house finch: syllable pitch plasticity or differential syllable use? (2009, background): “As birdsong is known to play an important role in sexual selection processes (reviews in Searcy & Anderson, 1986; Catchpole & Slater, 1995; Gil & Gahr, 2002), avoiding noise masking may have important fitness consequences.”
• Extrapair paternity in chestnut-sided warblers is correlated with consistent vocal performance (2007, background): “Subsequent investigation of vocal variation in songbird populations has revealed that songs vary along many dimensions (Wiley 2000; Gil and Gahr 2002; Podos et al. 2004) and thus incorporate numerous features that might be targets of female choice (Searcy and Yasukawa 1996; MacDougal-Shackleton…”
• Predators and the breeding bird: behavioral and reproductive flexibility under the risk of predation (2009, background): “That the characteristics of songs have a major impact on mate choice is a long-established fact in avian biology (Catchpole & Slater, 1995; Gil & Gahr, 2002).”
• Developmental stress impairs song complexity but not learning accuracy in non-domesticated zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) (2007, background): “The ability to perform and learn complex song will depend on the condition of the singer (Gil and Gahr 2002) and neural constraints established when the circuits in the forebrain responsible for song are formed and modified in the first few months after hatching (Nottebohm 1999).”
• Female zebra finches prefer high-amplitude song (2010, background): “Regarding song performance, song rate and song length have been investigated in several songbird species but song amplitude has hardly been explored at all (Gil & Gahr 2002).”
• The Eco-field Hypothesis: Toward a Cognitive Landscape (2005, background): “Such sign repertoires are analyzed in terms of a structural language used by an individual to manifest itself and to communicate cognitive status to other individuals (see f.i. Gil and Gahr 2002).”
• Immune challenge mediates vocal communication in a passerine bird: an experiment (2004, background): “Avian song is known to be a multifaceted trait consisting of numerous structural parameters encoding different kinds of information (Gil and Gahr, 2002; Vehrencamp, 2000).”