Auditory masking of anuran advertisement calls by road traffic noise

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1765-1776

  Bee, Mark A ^a   Swanson, Eli M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic communication; anthropogenic noise; auditory masking; chorus noise; grey treefrog; Hyla chrysoscelis; traffic noise; urban noise

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROG; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NOISE;

ANIMALIA; HYLA CHRYSOSCELIS;

EID: 36749071613     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.03.019     Document Type: Article

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