On the maintenance of bird song dialects

DOI10.1007/S00285-012-0632-8MaRDI QIDQ2436593zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Robert Planqué, Hans Slabbekoorn, N. F. Britton

Publication date 25 February 2014

Published in Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://opus.bath.ac.uk/32753/1/Planqueetal13JMB.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

behavioral ecologydialectmathematical biologymodeling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability of topological dynamical systems (37B25) Ecology (92D40) Animal behavior (92D50)

Review text

Mathematical models are developed to study dialect maintenance through exploring persistence of two adjacent and acoustically distinct bird populations, where the primary factors affecting the dialectal dynamics are incorporated in a particular way. It is shown that a combination of little dispersal and strong assortative mating ensures dialects, and that a nonlinear learning facilitates the dialect maintenance compared with a linear frequency-dependent learning rule.

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