Source parameters of echolocation clicks from wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus and Tursiops truncatus)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2263-2274

  Wahlberg, Magnus ^a   Jensen, Frants H ^b   Aguilar Soto, Natacha ^c   Beedholm, Kristian ^b   Bejder, Lars ^d   Oliveira, Cludia ^e   Rasmussen, Marianne ^f   Simon, Malene ^g   Villadsgaard, Anne ^a   Madsen, Peter T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Department of Animal Biology   (Spain)

^d Cetacean Research Unit   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^g GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSONAR; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION CLICKS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INDIAN OCEAN; PEAK-TO-PEAK-; SOUND PRODUCTION; SOURCE LEVEL; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TRUNCATUS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

ANIMALS; UNDERWATER AUDITION;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; INDIAN OCEAN; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; TRANSDUCER; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; INDIAN OCEAN; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 82255167318     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3624822     Document Type: Article

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