Environmental constraints on sound transmission by humpback whales

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 3004-3016

  Mercado III, Eduardo ^a   Frazer, L Neil ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES; WHALE;

EID: 0032738805     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428120     Document Type: Article

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