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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3355| Title: | Song Diversity Predicts the Viability of Fragmented Bird Populations |
| Publisher: | Public Library of Science |
| Description: | In the global scenario of increasing habitat fragmentation, finding appropriate indicators of population viability is a priority
for conservation. We explored the potential of learned behaviours, specifically acoustic signals, to predict the persistence
over time of fragmented bird populations. We found an association between male song diversity and the annual rate of
population change, population productivity and population size, resulting in birds singing poor repertoires in populations
more prone to extinction. This is the first demonstration that population viability can be predicted by a cultural trait
(acquired via social learning). Our results emphasise that cultural attributes can reflect not only individual-level
characteristics, but also the emergent population-level properties. This opens the way to the study of animal cultural
diversity in the increasingly common human-altered landscapes. We were financially supported by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship within the 6th European Framework Program and by a Ramón y Cajal contract of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (PL), by an I3P pre-doctoral fellowship from the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) (MV), by an I3P postdoctoral contract from the CSIC (DS), and by an Excellence Project of the Junta the Andalucía to J.L. Tella (PL, MV, DS, JLT). Peer reviewed |
| URI: | http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3355 |
| Other Identifiers: | PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(3): e1822 1932-6203 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3355 10.1371/journal.pone.0001822 |
| Appears in Collections: | Digital Csic |
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