Habitat-dependent ambient noise: Consistent spectral profiles in two African forest types

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3727-3733

  Slabbekoorn, Hans ^a,b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; FREQUENCIES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

AMBIENT NOISE; ECOTONE FORESTS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENT; RAINFOREST;

FORESTRY;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; FOREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CAMEROON; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENT; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SEASONS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TREES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; FORESTRY; FREQUENCIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NOISE;

EID: 11144305858     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1811121     Document Type: Article

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