Laboratory investigation of the acoustic response of seagrass tissue in the frequency band 0.5-2.5 kHz

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1951-1959

  Wilson, Preston S ^a   Dunton, Kenneth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REMOTE SENSING; ACOUSTIC RESPONSE; EQUATION MODELS; GAS CONTENTS; GULF COASTS; IN-SITU; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS; LOW FREQUENCIES; MODEL PREDICTIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITIES; PLANT BIOMASS; PLANT DENSITIES; POSIDONIA OCEANICA; PREDICTIVE MODELS; RESONATOR TECHNIQUES; SEAGRASS; SHALLOW WATERS; SOUND SPEED; TWO-PHASE MEDIUMS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; FREQUENCY BANDS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REMOTE SENSING; RESONATORS; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; WATER CONTENT;

DENSITY OF GASES;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HALODULE WRIGHTII; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAGRASS; SYRINGODIUM FILIFORME; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THALASSIA TESTUDINUM; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ALISMATIDAE; BIOMASS; GASES; HYDROCHARITACEAE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; RHIZOME; SOUND;

EID: 64649094388     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3086272     Document Type: Article

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