Sound transmission at ground level in a short-grass prairie habitat and its implications for long-range communication in the swift fox Vulpes velox

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 758-766

  Darden, Safi K ^a   Pedersen, Simon B ^a   Larsen, Ole N ^b   Dabelsteen, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; CRACK PROPAGATION; ECOLOGY; MAMMALS; OCEAN HABITATS;

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNICATION RANGES; FREQUENCY RANGING; GROUND LEVELS; IDENTITY INFORMATION; LONG-RANGE PROPAGATION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SWIFT FOXES; TEMPORAL FEATURES; TRANSMISSION EXPERIMENTS; TRANSMISSION PROPERTIES; VULPES VELOX;

BIODIVERSITY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENT; FOX; GRASS; HABITAT; HOME RANGE; INFORMATION; MASS COMMUNICATION; NONHUMAN; PRAIRIE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VOCALIZATION; VULPES VELOX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FOXES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 49249098875     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2946704     Document Type: Article

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