Localization of aerial broadband noise by pinnipeds

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 2339-2345

  Holt, Maria M ^a   Schusterman, Ronald J ^a   Southall, Brandon L ^a   Kastak, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BANDPASS FILTERS; BIOCOMMUNICATIONS; BIODIVERSITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BROADBAND NOISES; MAXIMUM AUDIBLE ANGLE (MAA); PINNIPEDS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

BIOACOUSTICS; COMMUNICATION; PINNIPED;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FILTER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CATS; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; MALE; PINNIPEDIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER;

EID: 2142647895     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1694995     Document Type: Article

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