Blue and fin whale call source levels and propagation range in the Southern Ocean

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1208-1215

  Širović, Ana ^a,b   Hildebrand, John A ^a   Wiggins, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO RECORDINGS; FISH; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; HYDROPHONES;

BLUE (BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS) WHALES; HYPERBOLIC LOCALIZATION; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC RECORDINGS;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS;

ACOUSTICS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; WHALE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BALAENOPTERA; FIN WHALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SEAWATER; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34547616100     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2749452     Document Type: Article

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