Near-real-time acoustic monitoring of beaked whales and other cetaceans using a Seaglider™

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Klinck, Holger ^a   Mellinger, David K ^a   Klinck, Karolin ^a   Bogue, Neil M ^b   Luby, James C ^b   Jump, William A ^b   Shilling, Geoffrey B ^b   Litchendorf, Trina ^b   Wood, Angela S ^b   Schorr, Gregory S ^c   Baird, Robin W ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CASCADIA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEAKED WHALE; CETACEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARINE MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; SOUND ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; SPERM WHALE; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CETACEA; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENT; OCEANS AND SEAS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; MAMMALIA; PHYSETERIDAE; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 84862106907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036128     Document Type: Article

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