Communication calls of little brown bats display individual-specific characteristics

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 919-923

  Melendez, Karla V ^a   Feng, Albert S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; BROADBAND NOISE; CALL DURATION; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; COMMUNICATION SIGNALS; DIGITAL RECORDERS; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM FREQUENCY; PC-BASED; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VOCAL SIGNALS;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

MAMMALS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECHOLOCATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECHOLOCATION; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77955792637     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3455835     Document Type: Article

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