Brown meagre vocalization rate increases during repetitive boat noise exposures: A possible case of vocal compensation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3118-3124

  Picciulin, Marta ^a   Sebastianutto, Linda ^b   Codarin, Antonio ^c   Calcagno, Giuliana ^a   Ferrero, Enrico A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b Valle Ca' Zuliani srl   (Italy)

^c ARPA FVG   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS; BACKGROUND NOISE; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FREQUENCY RANGES; MARINE RESERVE; NEARSHORES; NOISE EXPOSURE; NOISE LEVELS; PULSE RATE; RATE INCREASE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; FISH; GLASS FIBERS;

BOATS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SEA; SHIP; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; TRAFFIC NOISE; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PERCIFORMES; PRESSURE; SHIPS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84869128969     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4756928     Document Type: Article

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