Beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, vocalizations from the Churchill River, Manitoba, Canada

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4821-4835

  Chmelnitsky, Elly G ^a   Ferguson, Steven H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNALING;

AUTOMATED METHODS; DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING METHODS; HUMAN OBSERVERS; MANITOBA , CANADA; MEASURED PARAMETERS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 84919458574     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4707501     Document Type: Article

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