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dc.contributor.authorKyhn, Line A.
dc.contributor.authorTougaard, Jakob
dc.contributor.authorBeedholm, Kristian
dc.contributor.authorJensen, Frants H.
dc.contributor.authorAshe, Erin
dc.contributor.authorMadsen, Peter T.
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-16T14:31:02Z
dc.date.available2014-07-16T14:31:02Z
dc.date.issued2013-05-28
dc.identifier131396460
dc.identifiercffd4a1c-25bd-4192-a71b-36f2e6da7ab7
dc.identifier000319733000020
dc.identifier84878414871
dc.identifier.citationKyhn , L A , Tougaard , J , Beedholm , K , Jensen , F H , Ashe , E , Madsen , P T & Williams , R 2013 , ' Clicking in a killer whale habitat : narrow-band, high-frequency biosonar clicks of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) and Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) ' , PLoS One , vol. 8 , no. 5 , e63763 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063763en
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/5027
dc.descriptionThis study was funded by the Aarhus University Research Foundation, the Danish Ministry of Environment (Jagttegnsmidlerne) and by frame grants to PTM from the National Danish Science Research Council. RW was supported by a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme, and FHJ by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences.en
dc.description.abstractOdontocetes produce a range of different echolocation clicks but four groups in different families have converged on producing the same stereotyped narrow band high frequency (NBHF) click. In microchiropteran bats, sympatric species have evolved the use of different acoustic niches and subtly different echolocation signals to avoid competition among species. In this study, we examined whether similar adaptations are at play among sympatric porpoise species that use NBHF echolocation clicks. We used a six-element hydrophone array to record harbour and Dall's porpoises in British Columbia (BC), Canada, and harbour porpoises in Denmark. The click source properties of all porpoise groups were remarkably similar and had an average directivity index of 25 dB. Yet there was a small, but consistent and significant 4 kHz difference in centroid frequency between sympatric Dall's (137 +/- 3 kHz) and Canadian harbour porpoises (141 +/- 2 kHz). Danish harbour porpoise clicks (136 +/- 3 kHz) were more similar to Dall's porpoise than to their conspecifics in Canada. We suggest that the spectral differences in echolocation clicks between the sympatric porpoises are consistent with evolution of a prezygotic isolating barrier (i.e., character displacement) to avoid hybridization of sympatric species. In practical terms, these spectral differences have immediate application to passive acoustic monitoring.
dc.format.extent12
dc.format.extent1142306
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPLoS Oneen
dc.subjectTransmission beam patternen
dc.subjectEcholocation signalsen
dc.subjectNeophocaena-phocaenoidesen
dc.subjectOrcinus-orcaen
dc.subjectPseudorca-crassidensen
dc.subjectBritish-columbiaen
dc.subjectTonal signalsen
dc.subjectDolphinsen
dc.subjectkHzen
dc.subjectSonaren
dc.subjectQL Zoologyen
dc.subject.lccQLen
dc.titleClicking in a killer whale habitat : narrow-band, high-frequency biosonar clicks of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) and Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli)en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0063763
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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