Evolutionary BiologyProceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesPeer-reviewed
Song complexity in suboscine birds: evolutionary drivers and ecological constraints
Jingyi Yang, Chiti Arvind, Robert A. Barber…·Joseph A. Tobias
This study uses Bayesian phylogenetic models to analyze song complexity in suboscine birds, finding that sexual selection reduces complexity while territoriality increases it, challenging the dominance of sexual selection as the primary driver.
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2026.0429