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Au, W.W., Hastings, M.C. (2008). Acoustic Propagation. In: Principles of Marine Bioacoustics. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78365-9_4

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