ARCTIC Underwater Vocalizations as a Tool for Studying the Distribution and Relative Abundance of Wintering Pinnipeds in the High Arctic

• Main Authors: Ian Stirling, Wendy Calvert, Holly Cleatorz
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Mots clCs; vocalisations; phoque anneld; phoque barbu; mom; distribution; Arctic; Barbu; Phoques; bearded seal; Phoque barbu; ringed seal; Sea ice; walrus*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.574.7443; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic36-3-262.pdf

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