Degraded temporal sound features as a function of distance and potential as cues for ranging in birds

Bioacoustics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-33

  Mathevon, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Birds; Ranging; Sound degradation; Sound propagation; Temporal features

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL; BIRD; RANGING; SOUND DEGRADATION;

EID: 0031779880     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.1998.9753377     Document Type: Article

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