Potential acoustic masking of greater sage-grouse (centrocercus urophasianus) display components by chronic industrial noise

Ornithological Monographs

Volumn 74, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-35

  Blickley, Jessica L ^a   Patricelli, Gail L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic masking; Centrocercus urophasianus; Greater Sage Grouse; industrial noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869742865     PISSN: 00786594     EISSN: 19412282     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1525/om.2012.74.1.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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