What a plant sounds like: The statistics of vegetation echoes as received by echolocating bats

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Yovel, Yossi ^a   Stilz, Peter ^a   Franz, Matthias O ^b   Boonman, Arjan ^c   Schnitzler, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; MAMMALS; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SONAR;

AUDITORY SYSTEMS; CRITICAL STEPS; DAILY TASKS; FREQUENCY RANGES; NATURAL COMPLEXES; PHYSICAL WORLD; PLANT SPECIES; SENSORY SYSTEM; SONAR SYSTEM; SPATIAL FREQUENCY;

VEGETATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BAT; BIOMIMETICS; ECHOLOCATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECHOLOCATION; INFRARED RAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TREES;

EID: 68249095381     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000429     Document Type: Article

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