Potential ranging cues contained within the energetic pauses of transmitted wren song

Bioacoustics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-20

  Holland, Jo ^a   Dabelsteen, Torben ^a   Pedersen, Simon Boel ^a   Paris, Angela LÓpez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Degradation; Ranging; Reverberations; Troglodytes troglodytes; Wren

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BIOACOUSTICS; COMMUNICATION; TERRITORIALITY;

TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0346553073     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2001.9753475     Document Type: Article

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