Short- and long-term changes in right whale calling behavior: The potential effects of noise on acoustic communication

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3725-3731

  Parks, Susan E ^a,c   Clark, C W ^a   Tyack, P L ^b  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MAMMALS; MARINE BIOLOGY; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION; ANTHROPOGENIC NOISE; BEHAVIORAL CHANGES; MARINE MAMMALS;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; LIFESPAN; MARINE MAMMAL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; WHALE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CANADA; ECHOLOCATION; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SHIPS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 38849128327     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2799904     Document Type: Article

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