Echolocation signals of the free-ranging Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientialis)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3288-3296

  Li, Songhai ^a,b   Wang, Kexiong ^a,b   Wang, Ding ^a   Akamatsu, Tomonari ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FREQUENCIES; OCEAN HABITATS; SONAR; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRACKING (POSITION);

ECHOLOCATION; MULTIPULSE REVERBATION STRUCTURES; PEAK FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; CHINA; ECHOLOCATION; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NEOPHOCAENA PHOCAENOIDES ASIAEORIENTALIS; NONHUMAN; PORPOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM;

ANIMALS; CHINA; ECHOLOCATION; PORPOISES; RIVERS;

EID: 18744393437     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1882945     Document Type: Article

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