Depth dependent variation of the echolocation pulse rate of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 568-578

  Simard, Peter ^a   Hibbard, Ashley L ^b   McCallister, Kimberly A ^b   Frankel, Adam S ^c   Zeddies, David G ^c   Sisson, Geoffrey M ^c   Gowans, Shannon ^b   Forys, Elizabeth A ^b   Mann, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Eckerd College   (Russian Federation)

^c Marine Acoustics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION CLICKS; ECHOLOCATION PULSE; FREE-RANGING BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS; GULF OF MEXICO; LAG-TIME; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MAXIMAL RATES; MEAN WATER DEPTH; MULTI-MODAL; ODONTOCETES; PULSE RATE; TARGET DETECTION; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; WATER DEPTH;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TARGETS;

UNDERWATER AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES; WILD ANIMAL;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENT; FLORIDA; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 75949122109     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3257202     Document Type: Article

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