Stereotypical rapid source level regulation in the harbour porpoise biosonar

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 767-771

  Linnenschmidt, Meike ^a   Kloepper, Laura N ^b   Wahlberg, Magnus ^a,c   Nachtigall, Paul E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Fjord and Blt   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Automatic gain control; Biosonar; Click train; Hydrophone array; Target detection

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ARRAY; BAT; CETACEAN; ECHOLOCATION; HARBOR; HOME RANGE; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECHOLOCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PORPOISE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ECHOLOCATION; PHOCOENA; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 84866249633     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-0948-7     Document Type: Article

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