A simple frequency-scaling rule for animal communication

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 2334-2338

  Fletcher, Neville H ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AUDITION; BIODIVERSITY; DATA REDUCTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

MAMMALS; OPTIMAL COMMUNICATION FREQUENCIES; SOUND COMMUNICATION;

BIOCOMMUNICATIONS;

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; BIOACOUSTICS; COMMUNICATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ACOUSTICS; AIRFLOW; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; LUNG PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOUND; VERTEBRATE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CRUSTACEA; EAR, EXTERNAL; EVOLUTION; HEARING; HUMANS; INSECTS; LUNG; MAMMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRESSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 2142707297     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1694997     Document Type: Article

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