On the relationship between, and measurement of, amplitude and frequency in birdsong

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Zollinger, Sue Anne ^a   Podos, Jeffrey ^b   Nemeth, Erwin ^a   Goller, Franz ^c   Brumm, Henrik ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplitude; Bioacoustics; Birdsong; FFT artefacts; Frequency; Methodology; Noise; Signal to noise ratio; Spectrogram

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; SONG; SONGBIRD;

EID: 84866950916     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.04.026     Document Type: Article

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