Blue whales respond to anthropogenic noise

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Melcón, Mariana L ^a   Cummins, Amanda J ^a   Kerosky, Sara M ^a   Roche, Lauren K ^a   Wiggins, Sean M ^a   Hildebrand, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MONITORING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC NOISE; ARTICLE; BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATION; ECHOLOCATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXPLOSION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LOW FREQUENCY SOUND; MID FREQUENCY SOUND; NOISE; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHIP NOISE; SOUND ANALYSIS; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; UNITED STATES; VOCALIZATION; WHALE; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BALAENOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; SHIP; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ANIMALIA; BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; CETACEA; MAMMALIA;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BALAENOPTERA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALIFORNIA; NOISE; SHIPS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84857675487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032681     Document Type: Article

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