No need to shout? Harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) echolocate quietly in confined murky waters of the Wadden Sea

Autor: Harald Benke, Michael Dähne, Peter Stilz, Elisabeth Herold, Tom Bär, Anja Gallus
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 148(4)
ISSN: 1520-8524
Popis: Porpoise echolocation parameters may vary depending on their acoustic habitat and predominant behavior. Research was conducted in the Wadden Sea, an acoustically complex, tidally driven habitat with high particle resuspension. Source levels and echolocation parameters of wild harbor porpoises were estimated from time-of-arrival-differences of a six-element hydrophone array. The back-calculated peak-to-peak apparent source level of 169 ± 5 dB re 1 μPa was significantly lower than reported from Inner Danish Waters (−20 dB) and British Columbia (−9 dB) with narrower bandwidth. Porpoises therefore reduce their source level in the Wadden Sea under acoustically complex conditions suggesting an avoidance of cluttering.
Databáze: OpenAIRE