Quantitative measures of air-gun pulses recorded on sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) using acoustic tags during controlled exposure experiments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2366-2379

  Madsen, P T ^a,b   Johnson, M ^a   Miller, P J O ^c   Aguilar Soto, N ^d   Lynch, J ^a   Tyack, P ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TAGS; LOW-FREQUENCY AIR-GUN PULSES; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SEISMIC SEABED EXPLORATION;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION; GUNS (ARMAMENT); MARINE APPLICATIONS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

BIODIVERSITY;

ACOUSTICS; AIR; AIRGUN PULSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; GEOLOGY; GEOMETRY; HEARING; LOUDNESS; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPERM WHALE; WHALE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; AIR; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FORENSIC BALLISTICS; NOISE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPERM WHALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749539383     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2229287     Document Type: Article

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