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Record W4414190812 · doi:10.1111/ibi.13447

Source amplitude increases with body‐mass across avian genera

2025· article· en· W4414190812 on OpenAlex
Morgan A. Ziegenhorn, Richard B. Lanctot, Stephen C. Brown, Sarah T. Saalfeld, Paul A. Smith, Nicolas Lecomte

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Bibliographic record

VenueIbis · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicAnimal Vocal Communication and Behavior
Canadian institutionsEnvironment and Climate Change CanadaUniversité de Moncton
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceEnvironment and Climate Change CanadaNew Brunswick Innovation FoundationUniversité de Moncton
KeywordsAmplitudeMultivariate statisticsSIGNAL (programming language)Interspecific competitionPhylogenetic treeField (mathematics)Arctic

Abstract

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Amplitude, or intensity, of sound is a fundamental characteristic of acoustic communication, with relevance in many scientific fields. The amplitude of an animal's acoustic signal at its source (‘source amplitude’) may be particularly relevant in the field of acoustic allometry, where relationships between species' physical and acoustic features (e.g. dominant frequency) have been well‐established across taxa. However, despite their potential scientific value, records and studies of source amplitude remain remarkably scarce for avian species. Here we present novel estimates of source amplitude (range and median) for 17 species of Arctic‐breeding birds, derived from measurements made in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, during June 2024. We found a strong positive correlation between body‐mass and source amplitude in these data via Markov chain Monte Carlo multivariate generalized linear mixed models (MCMCglmms). This relationship was influenced by both phylogenetic and individual identity. In contrast, effects from environmental factors and measurement characteristics were minimal. Our work represents one of few studies that explicitly model an interspecific relationship between source amplitude and body mass across avian genera. We hope that this study will spur further investigations into avian source amplitude and its relationship to morphological and life‐history features for species in the Arctic and elsewhere.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.644
Threshold uncertainty score0.335

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.300
Teacher spread0.288 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it