Publications of the Group

Journal Article (54)

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   Brumm, H.; Goymann, W.: The function of collective signalling in a cuckoo. Animal Behaviour 146, pp. 23 - 30 (2018)
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   Dorado-Correa, A. M.; Zollinger, S. A.; Heidinger, B.; Brumm, H.: Timing matters: Traffic noise accelerates telomere loss rate differently across developmental stages. Frontiers in Zoology 15, 29 (2018)
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   Dorado-Correa, A. M.; Zollinger, S. A.; Brumm, H.: Vocal plasticity in mallards: Multiple signal changes in noise and the evolution of the Lombard effect in birds. Journal of Avian Biology 49 (1), jav.01564 (2018)
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   Goymann, W.; Brumm, H.: Let’s talk about sex - Not gender. Bioessays 40 (5), 1800030 (2018)
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   Hardman, S. I.; Dalesman, S.: Repeatability and degree of territorial aggression differs among urban and rural great tits (Parus major). Scientific Reports 8, 5042 (2018)
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   Brumm, H.; Zollinger, S. A.: Vocal plasticity in a reptile. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1855), 20170451 (2017)
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   Brumm, H.; Goymann, W.: On the natural history of duetting in White-browed Coucals: Sex- and body-size-dependent differences in a collective vocal display. Journal of Ornithology 158 (3), pp. 669 - 678 (2017)
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   Brumm, H.; Zollinger, S. A.; Niemelä, P. T.; Sprau, P.: Measurement artefacts lead to false positives in the study of birdsong in noise. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8 (11), pp. 1617 - 1625 (2017)
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   Hardman, S. I.; Zollinger, S. A.; Koselj, K.; Leitner, S.; Marshall, R. C.; Brumm, H.: Lombard effect onset times reveal the speed of vocal plasticity in a songbird. The Journal of Experimental Biology 220 (6), pp. 1065 - 1071 (2017)
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    Lawson, L. P.; Fessl, B.; Vargas, F. H.; Farrington, H. L.; Cunninghame, H. F.; Mueller, J. C.; Nemeth, E.; Sevilla, P. C.; Petren, K.: Slow motion extinction: Inbreeding, introgression, and loss in the critically endangered mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates). Conservation Genetics 18 (1), pp. 159 - 170 (2017)
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    Zollinger, S. A.; Slater, P. J. B.; Nemeth, E.; Brumm, H.: Higher songs of city birds may not be an individual response to noise. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1860), 20170602 (2017)
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    Brumm, H.; Bee, M.: A meta-analytic castle built on sand? A comment on Roca et al. Behavioral Ecology 27 (5), pp. 1277 - 1278 (2016)
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    Dominoni, D. M.; Greif, S.; Nemeth, E.; Brumm, H.: Airport noise predicts song timing of European birds. Ecology and Evolution 6 (17), pp. 6151 - 6159 (2016)
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    Dorado-Correa, A. M.; Rodríguez-Rocha, M.; Brumm, H.: Anthropogenic noise, but not artificial light levels predicts song behaviour in an equatorial bird. Royal Society Open Science 3 (7), 160231 (2016)
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    Templeton, C. N.; Zollinger, S. A.; Brumm, H.: Traffic noise drowns out great tit alarm calls. Current Biology 26 (22), pp. R1173 - R1174 (2016)
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    Elemans, C.P.H.; Rasmussen, J.H.; Herbst, C.T.; Düring, D.N.; Zollinger, S. A.; Brumm, H.; Srivastava, K.; Svane, N.; Ding, M.; Larsen, O.N. et al.; Sober, S.J.; Švec, J.G.: Universal mechanisms of sound production and control in birds and mammals. Nature Communications 6, 8978 (2015)
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    Luo, J.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Brumm, H.; Wiegrebe, L.: Linking the sender to the receiver: Vocal adjustments by bats to maintain signal detection in noise. Scientific Reports 5, 18556 (2015)
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    Zollinger, S. A.; Brumm, H.: Why birds sing loud songs and why they sometimes don't. Animal Behaviour 105, pp. 289 - 295 (2015)
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    Brumm, H.: Fish struggle to be heard – but just how much fin waving is there? Behavioral Ecology 25 (5), pp. 1033 - 1034 (2014)
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    Sumasgutner, P.; Nemeth, E.; Tebb, G.; Krenn, H. W.; Gamauf, A.: Hard times in the city - Attractive nest sites but insufficient food supply lead to low reproduction rates in a bird of prey. Frontiers in Zoology 11, 48 (2014)
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    Doolittle, E.; Brumm, H.: O Canto do Uirapuru: Consonant intervals and patterns in the song of the musician wren. Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies 6, pp. 55 - 85 (2013)
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    Nemeth, E.; Pieretti, N.; Zollinger, S. A.; Geberzahn, N.; Partecke, J.; Miranda, A. C.; Brumm, H.: Bird song and anthropogenic noise: vocal constraints may explain why birds sing higher-frequency songs in cities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1754), 20122798 (2013)
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    Brumm, H.: Biomusic and Popular Culture: The Use of Animal Sounds in the Music of the Beatles. Journal of Popular Music Studies 24 (1), pp. 25 - 38 (2012)
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    Brumm, H.; Teschke, I.: Juvenile Galapagos pelicans increase their foraging success by copying adult behaviour. PLoS One 7 (12), e51881 (2012)
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    Dvorak, M.; Fessl, B.; Nemeth, E.; Kleindorfer, S.; Tebbich, S.: Distribution and abundance of Darwin's finches and other land birds on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos: evidence for declining populations. Oryx 46 (1), pp. 78 - 86 (2012)
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    Nemeth, E.; Kempenaers, B.; Matessi, G.; Brumm, H.: Rock sparrow song reflects male age and reproductive success. PLoS One 7 (8), e43259 (2012)
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    Nemeth, E.; Zollinger, S. A.; Brumm, H.: Effect Sizes and the Integrative Understanding of Urban Bird Song (A Reply to Slabbekoorn et al.). American Naturalist 180 (1), pp. 146 - 152 (2012)
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    Ritschard, M.; Brumm, H.: Zebra finch song reflects current food availability. Evolutionary Ecology 26 (4), pp. 801 - 812 (2012)
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    Ritschard, M.; van Oers, K.; Naguib, M.; Brumm, H.: Song amplitude of rival males modulates the territorial behaviour of great tits during the fertile period of their mates. Ethology 118 (2), pp. 197 - 202 (2012)
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    Schuster, S.; Zollinger, S. A.; Lesku, J. A.; Brumm, H.: On the evolution of noise-dependent vocal plasticity in birds. Biology Letters 8 (6), pp. 913 - 916 (2012)
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    Zollinger, S. A.; Podos, J.; Nemeth, E.; Goller, F.; Brumm, H.: On the relationship between, and measurement of, amplitude and frequency in birdsong. Animal Behaviour 84 (4), pp. E1 - E9 (2012)
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    Brumm, H.; Ritschard, M.: Song amplitude affects territorial aggression of male receivers in chaffinches. Behavioral Ecology 22 (2), pp. 310 - 316 (2011)
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    Brumm, H.; Robertson, K. A.; Nemeth, E.: Singing direction as a tool to investigate the function of birdsong: an experiment on sedge warblers. Animal Behaviour 81 (3), pp. 653 - 659 (2011)
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    Brumm, H.; Zollinger, S. A.: The evolution of the Lombard effect: 100 years of psychoacoustic research. Behaviour 148 (11-13), pp. 1173 - 1198 (2011)
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    Ritschard, M.; Brumm, H.: Effects of vocal learning, phonetics and inheritance on song amplitude in zebra finches. Animal Behaviour 82 (6), pp. 1415 - 1422 (2011)
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    Ritschard, M.; Laucht, S.; Dale, J.; Brumm, H.: Enhanced testosterone levels affect singing motivation but not song structure and amplitude in Bengalese finches. Physiology & Behavior 102 (1), pp. 30 - 35 (2011)
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    Zollinger, S. A.; Brumm, H.: The Lombard effect. Current Biology 21 (16), pp. R614 - R615 (2011)
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    Zollinger, S. A.; Goller, F.; Brumm, H.: Metabolic and respiratory costs of increasing song amplitude in zebra finches. PLoS One 6 (9), e23198 (2011)
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    Brumm, H.; Farrington, H.; Petren, K.; Fessl, B.: Evolutionary dead end in the Galapagos: Divergence of sexual signals in the rarest of Darwin's finches. PLoS One 5 (6), e11191 (2010)
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    Nemeth, E.; Brumm, H.: Birds and Anthropogenic Noise: Are Urban Songs Adaptive? American Naturalist 176 (4), pp. 465 - 475 (2010)
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    Ritschard, M.; Riebel, K.; Brumm, H.: Female zebra finches prefer high-amplitude song. Animal Behaviour 79 (4), pp. 877 - 883 (2010)
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    Sprau, P.; Schmidt, R.; Roth, T.; Amrhein, V.; Naguib, M.: Effects of rapid broadband trills on responses to song overlapping in nightingales. Ethology 116 (4), pp. 300 - 308 (2010)
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    Brumm, H.; Naguib, M.: Environmental acoustics and the evolution of bird song. Advances in the Study of Behavior, pp. 1 - 33 (2009)
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    Brumm, H.: Song amplitude and body size in birds. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63 (8), pp. 1157 - 1165 (2009)
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    Brumm, H.; Lachlan, R. F.; Riebel, K.; Slater, P. J. B.: On the function of song type repertoires: Testing the "antiexhaustion hypothesis" in chaffinches. Animal Behaviour 77 (1), pp. 37 - 42 (2009)
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    Brumm, H.; Schmidt, R.; Schrader, L.: Noise-dependent vocal plasticity in domestic fowl. Animal Behaviour 78 (3), pp. 741 - 746 (2009)
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    Brumm, H.; Zollinger, S. A.; Slater, P. J. B.: Developmental stress affects song learning but not song complexity and vocal amplitude in zebra finches. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63 (9), pp. 1387 - 1395 (2009)
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    Nemeth, E.; Brumm, H.: Blackbirds sing higher-pitched songs in cities: adaptation to habitat acoustics or side-effect of urbanization? Animal Behaviour 78 (3), pp. 637 - 641 (2009)
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    Roth, T.; Sprau, P.; Schmidt, R.; Naguib, M.; Amrhein, V.: Sex specific timing of mate searching and territory prospecting in the nightingale: nocturnal life of females. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1664), pp. 2045 - 2050 (2009)
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    Samarra, F. I. P.; Klappert, K.; Brumm, H.; Miller, P. J. O.: Background noise constrains communication: acoustic masking of courtship song in the fruit fly Drosophila montana. Behaviour 146 (12), pp. 1635 - 1648 (2009)