Temporal stability and change in the social call repertoire of migrating humpback whales

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1785-1795

  Rekdahl, Melinda L ^a   Dunlop, Rebecca A ^a   Noad, Michael J ^a   Goldizen, Anne W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALL TYPES; GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION; HUMPBACK WHALES; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; TEMPORAL STABILITY; VOCAL REPERTOIRE;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

STABILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; HEARING; HUMPBACK WHALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMPBACK WHALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SINGING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84874839740     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4789941     Document Type: Article

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