Passive acoustic survey of Yangtze finless porpoises using a cargo ship as a moving platform

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2285-2292

  Dong, Lijun ^a   Wang, Ding ^a   Wang, Kexiong ^a   Li, Songhai ^a   Dong, Shouyue ^a   Zhao, Xiujiang ^a   Akamatsu, Tomonari ^b   Kimura, Satoko ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARGO SHIPS; COST EFFECTIVE; DATALOGGER; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; GROUP SIZE; MOVING PLATFORM; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; SEASONAL MIGRATION; STEREO ACOUSTICS; TIME WINDOWS; YANGTZE FINLESS PORPOISE; YANGTZE RIVER;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; MAMMALS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SHIPS;

SURVEYS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHONATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PORPOISE; RIVER; SEASON; SHIP; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; TRANSDUCER; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; PHONATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PORPOISES; RIVERS; SEASONS; SHIPS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 82255196605     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3625257     Document Type: Article

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