Reply to Eens et al.: Urban noise can alter sexual selection on bird song

Effect Sizes and the Integrative Understanding of Urban Bird Song (A Reply to Slabbekoorn et al.)

Reply to Murrell et al.: Noise matters.

The concept of statistical " equitability " plays a central role in the 2011 paper by Reshef et al. (1). Formalizing equitability first requires formalizing the notion of a " noisy functional relationship, " that is, a relationship between two real variables, X and Y, having the form Y = f ðXÞ + η; where f is a function and η is a noise term. Whether a dependence measure satisfies equi-tability...

Reply to Chen et al . Jun - Gol Song and

We would like to thank Chen et al. for their careful reading of, and comments [1] regarding, our manuscript [2]. We completely agree that diagnostic pain is mainly dependent on the patient’s description and lacks an objective assessment. This is one of the limitations of our study that was mentioned in the discussion. We also agree that our results demonstrate that pain intensity, analgesic use...

Migration strategy and divergent sexual selection on bird song.

Migratory birds are assumed to be under stronger sexual selection pressure than sedentary populations, and the fact that their song is more complex has been taken as confirmation of this fact. However, this assumes that sexual selection pressure due to both male competition and female choice increase together. A further issue is that, in many species, songs become less complex during competitiv...

MINGLEI SONG et al: PATH SELECTION OF URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION BASED ON ..

Objective: to analyze and study the urban public transportation system and ant colony optimization algorithm, and propose the optimal route choice model based on GBAS. Method: theoretical analysis and algorithm analysis. Process: On the basis of detailed analysis of urban public transport system, a public transport network topology model is established, and the combined method of bus station an...