Sources of background noise and their influence on vertebrate acoustic communication

Behaviour

Volumn 150, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 1045-1068

  Luther, David ^a   Gentry, Katherine ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic communication; ambient noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893420608     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003054     Document Type: Review

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