Bowhead whale springtime song off West Greenland

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3315-3323

  Stafford, Kathleen M ^a   Moore, Sue E ^a   Laidre, Kristin L ^a,b   Heide Jorgensen M P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT FEMALES; BOWHEAD WHALES; DIGITAL AUDIO TAPES; EASTERN ARCTIC; GREENLAND; HUMPBACK WHALES;

ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; SEA ICE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; BOWHEAD WHALE; FEMALE; HUMPBACK WHALE; LOUDNESS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MEASUREMENT; MUSIC; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRING; WINTER;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BOWHEAD WHALE; GREENLAND; HUMPBACK WHALE; MUSIC; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 56749159032     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2980443     Document Type: Article

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