Passerine Birds Breeding under Chronic Noise Experience Reduced Fitness

Julia Schroeder; Shinichi Nakagawa; Ian R. Cleasby; Terry Burke

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039200

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Passerine Birds Breeding under Chronic Noise Experience Reduced Fitness

Julia Schroeder ,

* E-mail: julia.schroeder@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Shinichi Nakagawa,

Affiliations Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
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Ian R. Cleasby,

Affiliation Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Terry Burke

Affiliation Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Passerine Birds Breeding under Chronic Noise Experience Reduced Fitness

Julia Schroeder,
Shinichi Nakagawa,
Ian R. Cleasby,
Terry Burke

Published: July 11, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039200

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