The effect of climate on acoustic signals: Does atmospheric sound absorption matter for bird song and bat echolocation?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1650-1658

  Snell Rood, Emilie C ^a,b  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; BAT ECHOLOCATION; ECHOLOCATION CALLS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MEAN ABSORPTION; NARROW BANDWIDTH; NORTH AMERICAN; RAINY SEASONS; SIGNAL STRUCTURES; SOUND ABSORPTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MAMMALS; SOUND INSULATING MATERIALS; UNDERWATER AUDITION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BAT; CLIMATE; ECHOLOCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SOUND; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; CHIROPTERA; CLIMATE; ECHOLOCATION; SONGBIRDS; SOUND; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84857378000     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3672695     Document Type: Article

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