Measuring sperm whales from their clicks: Stability of interpulse intervals and validation that they indicate whale length

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1826-1831

  Rhinelander, Marcus Q ^a,b   Dawson, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; BIODIVERSITY; MARINE BIOLOGY; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTERIMPULSE INTERVAL (IPI); SPERM WHALES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; ENERGY; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TAPE RECORDING; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 1842425584     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1689346     Document Type: Article

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