Intraspecific and geographic variation of West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus spp.) vocalizations (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 66-69

  Nowacek, Douglas P ^a,b   Casper, Brandon M ^c   Wells, Randall S ^b   Nowacek, Stephanie M ^b   Mann, David A ^b,c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY MODULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SOUND RECORDING;

HARMONIC COMPLEXES;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ECOLOGY;

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; SIRENIAN; VOCALIZATION;

ARTICLE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; TRICHECHUS MANATUS; UNITED STATES; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BELIZE; FLORIDA; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRICHECHUS MANATUS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

BELIZE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038166228     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1582862     Document Type: Article

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