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    dcterms:bibliographicCitation "Krause BL. The Niche Hypothesis: a virtual symphony of animal sounds, the origins of musical expression and the health of habitats. The Soundscape Newsletter. 1993;(6):4-6. Available at: https://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio-webdav/WSP_Doc/Newsletters/Number6.pdf.", "Gomes DGE, Toth CA, Cole HJ, Francis CD, Barber JR. Phantom rivers filter birds and bats by acoustic niche. Nature Communications. 2021;12(1):3029. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22390-y.", "Hart PJ, Ibanez T, Paxton K, Tredinnick G, Sebastián-González E, Tanimoto-Johnson A. Timing Is Everything: Acoustic Niche Partitioning in Two Tropical Wet Forest Bird Communities. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2021;9:753363. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.753363.", "Tobias JA, Planqué R, Cram DL, Seddon N. Species interactions and the structure of complex communication networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2014;111(3):1020-1025. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1314337111.; Ross et al. (2023), Functional Ecology, glossary of key terms. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14275; Bradfer-Lawrence et al. (2023), Methods in Ecology and Evolution, glossary of key ecoacoustic terms. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14194" .

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