Exposure to seismic survey alters blue whale acoustic communication

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-54

  Di Iorio, Lucia ^a   Clark, Christopher W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Ambient noise; Compensation; Seismic survey; Whale calls

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; COMPENSATION; SEISMIC SURVEY; WHALE;

BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; MYSTICETI;

EID: 77449098985     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0651     Document Type: Article

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