A method for identifying Sound Scattering Layers and extracting key characteristics

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1190-1198

  Proud, Roland ^a,b,c   Cox, Martin J ^b   Wotherspoon, Simon ^b,c   Brierley, Andrew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological communities; Biological layers; Deep scattering layers; Diel vertical migration; Marine acoustics; Mid trophic level; Pelagic ecology; Sound scattering layer extraction method; SSL metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944156295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12396     Document Type: Article

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