Measurements and predictions of hooded crow (Corvus corone cornix) call propagation over open field habitats

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 507-518

  Jensen, Kenneth Kragh ^a   Larsen, Ole Næsbye ^b   Attenborough, Keith ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BIOCOMMUNICATIONS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION; ATTENUATION SPECTRA; HOODED CROW; NOISE MEASUREMENTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BACKGROUND NOISE; CALL PROPAGATION; CORVUS CORONE CORNIX; CROW; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HABITAT; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBULENCE MODIFIED GROUND EFFECT PLUS ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION MODEL; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CROWS; ECOSYSTEM; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 37849034359     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2817363     Document Type: Article

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