Transmission loss in manatee habitats

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2320-2327

  Miksis Olds, Jennifer L ^a,c   Miller, James H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; MANATEE HABITATS; PARABOLIC EQUATION MODEL; TRANSMISSION LOSS MEASUREMENTS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; COASTAL ZONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; NOISE POLLUTION;

URBAN PLANNING;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FOOD COMPOSITION; GRASS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; MANATEE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAGRASS; SIRENIA; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ALISMATIDAE; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HYDROCHARITACEAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; OCEANS AND SEAS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRICHECHUS MANATUS;

EID: 33749554433     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2258832     Document Type: Article

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