Sound design for vocalizations: Quality in the woods, consistency in the fields

Condor

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-92

  Brown, Timothy J ^a   Handford, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic adaptation hypothesis; Amplitude modulation; Degradation; Ranging; Reverberation; Transmission consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033953637     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370409     Document Type: Article

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