Acoustic cues available for ranging by humpback whales (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2499-2502

  Mercado III, Eduardo ^a   Schneider, Jennifer N ^a   Green, Sean R ^a   Wang, Chong ^a   Rubin, Rachael D ^a   Banks, Patchouly N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS;

HUMPBACK; SOUND SOURCES; WHALES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIELD STUDY; HABITAT; HUMPBACK WHALE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CUES; HUMPBACK WHALE; MOTION; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 34247844566     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2717495     Document Type: Article

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