Repetition patterns in Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) underwater multiple element calls

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1261-1270

  Moors, Hilary B ^a   Terhune, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ECOSYSTEMS; FREQUENCIES; PROBABILITY;

UNDERWATER VOCALIZATION; WEDDELL SEAL;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SEAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TAPE RECORDER; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MALE; SEALS, EARLESS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TAPE RECORDING; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 4043099652     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1763956     Document Type: Article

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