Sonar versus Whales: Noise may disrupt neural activity in deep-diving cetaceans

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-137

  Talpalar, A E ^a   Grossman, Y ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; HIGH PRESSURE NEUROLOGICAL SYNDROME; NOISE; ORIENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STARTLE REFLEX; WHALE;

ANIMALS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION; HIGH PRESSURE NEUROLOGICAL SYNDROME; NOISE; ORIENTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION; WHALES;

EID: 19044383071     PISSN: 10662936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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