Urban noise and the cultural evolution of bird songs

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2010-02-07

• Fields of study

  Art, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2009.1571PMID 19846451PMCID PMC2842653
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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