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habitat acoustics — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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habitat acoustics

Scope: general ecology

Papers: 4 | Mentions: 4

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 70 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on habitat acoustics with 70 nodes and 170 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Marmota, Yellow-bellied Marmot, Engelmann Spruce.

Definition

Environmental factors affecting sound transmission including vegetation structure, topography, and background noise that influence acoustic signal propagation and degradation

Related Terms (7)

signal degradationenvironmental transmissionacoustic degradationcall degradationacoustic environmentacoustic transmissionsound transmission

Publications (4)

A test of the nonlinearity hypothesis: Is noise any different than deterministic chaos?

Individual, age and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls

2005Animal Behaviour

Reliability and the adaptive utility of discrimination among alarm callers

2004Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B

A test of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis in four species of marmots

1998Animal Behavior

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alarm calling

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vocal individuality

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spectrogram correlation

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playback experiments

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intraclass correlation coefficient

metric1 shared paper

discriminant function analysis

measurement1 shared paper

reliability assessment

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acoustic transmission fidelity

metric1 shared paper

nonlinear acoustics

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white noise

measurement1 shared paper

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Yellow-bellied Marmot

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Marmota

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Marmota caudata

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Marmota bobak

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Callospermophilus lateralis

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Marmota baibacina

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Spermophilus

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Urocitellus richardsonii

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Macaca mulatta

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Otospermophilus beecheyi

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