Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) songs in the Chukchi Sea between October 2007 and May 2008

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3319-3328

  Delarue, Julien ^a   Laurinolli, Marjo ^a   Martin, Bruce ^a  

^a JASCO Applied Sciences Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DETECTION; CHUKCHI SEA; MATING BEHAVIOR; SHORT PERIODS; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ACOUSTICS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BOWHEAD WHALE; MATING; MUSIC; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOUND DETECTION; WINTER;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BOWHEAD WHALE; ELECTRONICS; ENVIRONMENT; ICE; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEASONS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 72549119735     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3257201     Document Type: Article

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