Temporary shift in masked hearing thresholds in a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) after exposure to seismic airgun stimuli

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4060-4070

  Lucke, Klaus ^a   Siebert, Ursula ^a   Lepper, Paul A ^b   Blanchet, Marie Anne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Fjord and Baelt   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR GUNS; AMPLITUDE-MODULATED; AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; ELEVATED LEVEL; HARBOR PORPOISE; HEARING SENSITIVITY; HEARING THRESHOLD; NOISE EXPOSURE; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; SOUND EXPOSURE LEVELS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; TEMPORARY THRESHOLD SHIFTS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS; NOISE POLLUTION; ULTRASONICS;

MAMMALS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FIREARM; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PORPOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; TEMPORARY THRESHOLD SHIFT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FIREARMS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOCOENA;

EID: 67649109326     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3117443     Document Type: Article

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