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References from Colony size as the main driver of the evolution of song diversity and composition in weaverbirds. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
Phylogenetic signal in the vocalizations of vocal learning and vocal non-learning birds
10.1098/rstb.2020.0241 · 2021 · External reference
Applying the structural causal model framework for observational causal inference in ecology
10.1002/ecm.1554 · 2023 · External reference
Cocktail–party effect in king penguin colonies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
10.1098/rspb.1998.0486 · 1998 · External reference
The brown anole dewlap revisited: Do predation pressure, sexual selection, and species recognition shape among-population signal diversity?
10.7717/peerj.4722 · 2018 · External reference
phylopath: Easy phylogenetic path analysis in R
10.7717/peerj.4718 · 2018 · External reference
Testing for phylogenetic signal in comparative data: behavioral traits are more labile
10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00285.x · 2003 · External reference
Does Sociality Drive the Evolution of Communicative Complexity? A Comparative Test with Ground‐Dwelling Sciurid Alarm Calls
10.1086/286062 · 1997 · External reference
Song complexity correlates with learning ability in zebra finch males
10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.08.009 · 2008 · External reference
How to identify dear enemies: The group signature in the complex song of the skylark Alauda arvensis
10.1242/jeb.013359 · 2008 · External reference
brms: An R Package for Bayesian Multilevel Models Using Stan
10.18637/jss.v080.i01 · 2017 · External reference
Female mate choice and songbird song repertoires
10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.10.003 · 2009 · External reference
Behavioral, morphological, and ecological trait evolution in two clades of New World Sparrows (Aimophila and Peucaea
10.7717/peerj.9249 · 2020 · External reference
Vocal Signals of the Village Weaver: A Spectrographic Key and the Communication Code
10.1093/condor/102.1.60 · 2000 · External reference
10.1163/9789004629172
10.1163/9789004629172 · 1964 · External reference
Vocalizations of Male Euplectes in Captivity
10.1111/j.1439-0310.1976.tb00476.x · 1976 · External reference
Identifying ecological drivers of interspecific variation in song complexity in songbirds (Passeriformes, Passeri
10.1111/jav.02020 · 2019 · External reference
Signaling Individual Identity versus Quality: A Model and Case Studies with Ruffs, Queleas, and House Finches
10.1086/320861 · 2001 · External reference
Sexual selection and species recognition promote complex male courtship displays in ungulates
10.1093/beheco/arae027 · 2024 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1871 · External reference
Phylogenetic relationships of weaverbirds (Aves: Ploceidae): A first robust phylogeny based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.013 · 2017 · External reference
General Methods for Evolutionary Quantitative Genetic Inference from Generalized Mixed Models
10.1534/genetics.115.186536 · 2016 · External reference
Handbook of the Birds of the World
2010 · External reference
Evolutionary predictors of the specific colors of birds
10.1073/pnas.2217692120 · 2023 · External reference
Angry caciques: Intrasexual aggression in a Neotropical colonial blackbird
10.1080/03949370.2018.1544593 · 2018 · External reference
Collinearity: A review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance
10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07348.x · 2013 · External reference
Does the syrinx, a peripheral structure, constrain effects of sex steroids on behavioral sex reversal in adult canaries?
10.1016/j.yhbeh.2023.105394 · 2023 · External reference
Swamp sparrows modulate vocal performance in an aggressive context
10.1098/rsbl.2008.0626 · 2009 · External reference
The social brain hypothesis
10.1002/(sici)1520-6505(1998)6:5 · 1998 · External reference
Bondedness and sociality
10.1163/000579510x501151 · 2010 · External reference
Oiseaux d’Afrique / 1 & 2. African bird sounds / 1 & 2. Oiseaux d’Afrique (nord, ouest et centre de l’Afrique et îles atlantiques voisines)
2020 · External reference
Coevolution of social and communicative complexity in lemurs
10.1098/rstb.2021.0297 · 2022 · External reference
Social Complexity Can Drive Vocal Complexity: Group Size Influences Vocal Information in Carolina Chickadees
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01743.x · 2006 · External reference
Social complexity as a proximate and ultimate factor in communicative complexity
10.1098/rstb.2011.0213 · 2012 · External reference
Meta‐analysis of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis reveals no support for the effect of vegetation structure on acoustic signalling across terrestrial vertebrates
10.1111/brv.13163 · 2025 · External reference
Surviving the serenade: How conflicting selection pressures shape the early stages of sexual signal diversification
10.1093/evolut/qpae035 · 2024 · External reference
Extrapair paternity and the evolution of bird song
10.1093/beheco/arh041 · 2004 · External reference
Perceptual mechanisms for individual vocal recognition in European starlings,Sturnus vulgaris
10.1006/anbe.1998.0810 · 1998 · External reference
Real-time divergent evolution in plants driven by pollinators
10.1038/ncomms14691 · 2017 · External reference
The honesty of bird song: Multiple constraints for multiple traits
10.1016/s0169-5347(02)02410-2 · 2002 · External reference
Vocal athletics – from birdsong production mechanisms to sexy songs
10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.04.009 · 2022 · External reference
Song evolution in Maluridae: Influences of natural and sexual selection on acoustic structure
10.1071/mu12078 · 2013 · External reference
Inequality among the lexicons
10.24072/pci.evolbiol.100836 · 2025 · External reference
Disentangling evolutionary cause-effect relationships with phylogenetic confirmatory path analysis
10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01790.x · 2013 · External reference
Weaver song evolution: data, scripts, and supp mat
10.17605/osf.io/k7jr6 · 2025 · External reference
It’s complicated: The association between songbird extrapair paternity and within-song complexity
10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.06.026 · 2017 · External reference
Local habitat complexity correlates with song complexity in a vocally elaborate honeyeater
10.1111/aec.12477 · 2017 · External reference
The Phylogenetic Mixed Model
10.1086/380570 · 2004 · External reference
Beak morphology and song features covary in a population of Darwin’s finches (Geospiza fortis)
10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00638.x · 2006 · External reference
Estimating heritability of song considering within-individual variance in a wild songbird: The collared flycatcher
10.3389/fevo.2022.975687 · 2022 · External reference
Phylogenetic signal in primate behaviour, ecology and life history
10.1098/rstb.2012.0341 · 2013 · External reference
Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: A tutorial review and prospectus
10.1111/brv.12160 · 2016 · External reference
Song repertoire size is correlated with body measures and arrival date in common nightingales, Luscinia megarhynchos
10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.04.011 · 2006 · External reference
Lonely hearts or sex in the city? Density-dependent effects in mating systems
10.1098/rstb.2005.1784 · 2006 · External reference
Perceptual mechanism for vocal individual recognition in jungle crows (Corvus macrorhynchos): Contact call signature and discrimination
10.1163/000579510x505427 · 2010 · External reference
Linking social complexity and vocal complexity: A parid perspective
10.1098/rstb.2011.0222 · 2012 · External reference
Why do some animals mate with one partner rather than many? A review of causes and consequences of monogamy
10.1111/brv.12421 · 2018 · External reference
Animal signals
10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.070 · 2013 · External reference
Cooperative breeding influences the number and type of vocalizations in avian lineages
10.1098/rspb.2017.1508 · 2017 · External reference
Multiple factors affect the evolution of repertoire size across birds
10.1093/beheco/araa139 · 2021 · External reference
Sexual Selection, Mating Systems, and the Evolution of Avian Acoustical Displays
10.1086/284605 · 1986 · External reference
Song evolution, speciation, and vocal learning in passerine birds
10.1111/evo.13159 · 2017 · External reference
Coevolution of vocal communication and sociality in primates
10.1098/rsbl.2005.0366 · 2005 · External reference
Does vocal learning accelerate acoustic diversification? Evolution of contact calls in Neotropical parrots
10.1111/jeb.12694 · 2015 · External reference
Relationships of song structure to phylogenetic history, habitat, and morphology in the vireos, greenlets, and allies (Passeriformes: Vireonidae
10.1111/evo.14099 · 2020 · External reference
A global analysis of song frequency in passerines provides no support for the acoustic adaptation hypothesis but suggests a role for sexual selection
10.1111/ele.13662 · 2021 · External reference
Biogeography predicts macro-evolutionary patterning of gestural display complexity in a passerine family
10.1111/evo.13213 · 2017 · External reference
Selection for Rhythm as a Trigger for Recursive Evolution in the Elaborate Display System of Woodpeckers
10.1086/707748 · 2020 · External reference
The evolution of birdsong on islands
10.1002/ece3.864 · 2013 · External reference
Ecological Sources of Selection on Avian Sounds
10.1086/282971 · 1975 · External reference
Sociality and communicative complexity: Insights from the other insect societies
10.1016/j.cois.2018.04.002 · 2018 · External reference
Nestling growth and song repertoire size in great reed warblers: Evidence for song learning as an indicator mechanism in mate choice
10.1098/rspb.2000.1300 · 2000 · External reference
Comparative bioacoustics: A roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa
10.1111/brv.12695 · 2021 · External reference
Intrasexual selection predicts the evolution of signal complexity in lizards
10.1098/rspb.2000.1417 · 2001 · External reference
Is sociality required for the evolution of communicative complexity? Evidence weighed against alternative hypotheses in diverse taxonomic groups
10.1098/rstb.2011.0215 · 2012 · External reference
Tracing the origins of signal diversity in anole lizards: Phylogenetic approaches to inferring the evolution of complex behaviour
10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.12.003 · 2006 · External reference
Uncorrelated evolution between vocal and plumage coloration traits in the trogons: A comparative study
10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01679.x · 2009 · External reference
Variation in colony sizes of weavers from a citizen science project
10.2989/00306525.2020.1781275 · 2020 · External reference
Phylogenetic Signal in the Song of Crests and Kinglets (aves: Regulus
10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb01553.x · 2003 · External reference
How to define, use, and interpret Pagel’s λ (lambda) in ecology and evolution
10.1101/2023.10.10.561651 · 2023 · External reference
Clarifying and expanding the social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity
10.1007/s00265-018-2605-4 · 2019 · External reference
A computational neuroscience framework for quantifying warning signals
10.1111/2041-210x.14268 · 2024 · External reference
Correlated evolution of morphology and vocal signal structure in Darwin’s finches
10.1038/35051570 · 2001 · External reference
Costs, constraints and sexual trait elaboration
10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.05.021 · 2022 · External reference
Evolving communicative complexity: Insights from rodents and beyond
10.1098/rstb.2011.0221 · 2012 · External reference
Evolution of Beak Size and Song Constraints in Neotropical Seedeaters (Thraupidae: Sporophila)
10.3161/00016454ao2018.53.2.007 · 2019 · External reference
Reconstructing the evolution of complex bird song in the oropendolas
10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb01462.x · 2002 · External reference
Patterns of song evolution and sexual selection in the oropendolas and caciques
10.1093/beheco/arh040 · 2004 · External reference
Wake Up and Smell the Roses: The Ecology and Evolution of Floral Scent
10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.38.091206.095601 · 2008 · External reference
Singing and mating success in water pipits: One specific song element makes all the difference
10.1006/anbe.1998.0733 · 1998 · External reference
Phylogenetic Signal, Evolutionary Process, and Rate
10.1080/10635150802302427 · 2008 · External reference
Machine learning and statistical classification of birdsong link vocal acoustic features with phylogeny
10.1038/s41598-023-33825-5 · 2023 · External reference
Songs differing in consistency elicit differential aggressive response in territorial birds
10.1098/rsbl.2010.0962 · 2011 · External reference
Social and ecological complexity is associated with gestural repertoire size of wild chimpanzees
10.1111/1749-4877.12423 · 2020 · External reference
Species-level repertoire size predicts a correlation between individual song elaboration and reproductive success
10.1002/ece3.5418 · 2019 · External reference
The singing question: Re‐conceptualizing birdsong
10.1111/brv.12800 · 2022 · External reference
Signal Diversity, Sexual Selection, and Speciation
10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054158 · 2015 · External reference
Proposing a neural framework for the evolution of elaborate courtship displays
10.7554/elife.74860 · 2022 · External reference
Sexual selection and mating systems
10.1073/pnas.0901132106 · 2009 · External reference
Sexual selection for both diversity and repetition in birdsong
10.1038/s41467-023-39308-5 · 2023 · External reference
Polygyny is linked to accelerated birdsong evolution but not to larger song repertoires
10.1038/s41467-019-08621-3 · 2019 · External reference
Rethinking birdsong evolution: Meta-analysis of the relationship between song complexity and reproductive success
10.1093/beheco/arq219 · 2011 · External reference
Early Rearing Conditions Affect the Development of Body Size and Song in Bengalese Finches
10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01263.x · 2006 · External reference
Evolution of Social Organization: Phylogenetic Analyses of Ecology and Sexual Selection in Weavers
10.1086/720270 · 2022 · External reference
Song as an honest signal of developmental stress in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
10.1016/s0018-506x(03)00124-7 · 2003 · External reference
Breeding vocalizations of the piping plover (Charadrius melodus): Structure, diversity, and repertoire organization
10.1139/z05-041 · 2005 · External reference
Bilateral coordination and the motor basis of female preference for sexual signals in canary song
10.1242/jeb.071944 · 2012 · External reference
The neuromuscular control of birdsong
10.1098/rstb.1999.0444 · 1999 · External reference
A Primer on Phylogenetic Generalised Least Squares
10.1007/978-3-662-43550-2_5 · 2014 · External reference
Evolution of leaf warbler songs (Aves: Phylloscopidae)
10.1002/ece3.1400 · 2015 · External reference
A taxonomy for vocal learning
10.1098/rstb.2018.0406 · 2019 · External reference
Practical Bayesian model evaluation using leave-one-out cross-validation and WAIC
10.1007/s11222-016-9696-4 · 2017 · External reference
Song differences between populations of seven subspecies of the African forest weaver Ploceus bicolor Vieillot (Aves: Passeriformes)
10.1007/s10336-005-0025-5 · 2006 · External reference
Statistical Control Requires Causal Justification
10.1177/25152459221095823 · 2022 · External reference
Developmental stress impairs song complexity but not learning accuracy in non-domesticated zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata
10.1007/s00265-007-0467-2 · 2008 · External reference