Acoustical dead zones and the spatial aggregation of whale strandings

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 238, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 764-770

  Sundaram, Bala ^a   Poje, Andrew C ^a   Veit, Richard R ^a   Nganguia, Herve ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic ray dynamics; Cetacean strandings; Echolocation

Indexed keywords

CETACEAN; COAST; ECHOLOCATION; STRANDING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CETACEA; ECHOLOCATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECHOLOCATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WHALES;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA;

EID: 31744439381     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.06.022     Document Type: Article

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