Echolocation call intensity and directionality in flying short-tailed fruit bats, Carollia perspicillata (Phyllostomidae)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 427-435

  Brinkløv, Signe ^a   Jakobsen, Lasse ^a   Ratcliffe, John M ^a   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^b   Surlykke, Annemarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE BEAMS; BAT ECHOLOCATION; BEAM ANGLE; BIOSONAR; CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; DETECTION RANGE; ECHOLOCATION CALLS; FRUIT BATS; LOW-INTENSITY; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; NARROW BEAMS; NARROWER BEAM; OFF-AXIS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SIGNAL DESIGN; SOUND BEAMS; SOUND ENERGY; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SOURCE LEVEL;

MAMMALS; SONAR; SPEECH RECOGNITION; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

UNDERWATER AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLYING; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; TRANSDUCER; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; PRESSURE; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TRANSDUCERS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79551674402     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3519396     Document Type: Article

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