Birdsong as an element of the urban sound environment: A case study concerning the area of Warnemünde in Germany

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 458-466

  Liu, Jiang ^a,b   Kang, Jian ^b   Behm, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTIC; LARGEST PATCH INDICES; PERCEIVED LOUDNESS; SOUND ENVIRONMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; VEGETATION DENSITY;

BIRDS;

EID: 84899028758     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918726     Document Type: Article

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