The shape of sound: Elliptic fourier descriptors (efd) discriminate the echolocation calls of myotis bats (m. daubentonii, m. nattereri and m. mystacinus)

Bioacoustics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 101-115

  Lundy, Mathieu ^a   Teeling, Emma ^a,b   Boston, Emma ^a,b   Scott, David ^a   Buckley, Daniel ^a,b   Prodohl, Paulo ^a   Marnell, Ferdia ^c   Montgomery, Ian ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c National Parks and Wildlife Service Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Echolocation; Elliptic Fourier Descriptors; Morphometries; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIOACOUSTICS; ECHOLOCATION; ELLIPSE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; SHAPE; ULTRASONICS;

CHIROPTERA; MYOTIS; MYOTIS MYSTACINUS; MYOTIS NATTERERI;

EID: 81455155782     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2011.9753638     Document Type: Article

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