Evaluation of a new type of box splitter designed for subsampling estuarine ichthyofauna

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1041-1047

  Winner, Brent L ^a   McMichael, Robert H ^a  

^a FLORIDA MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ESTUARINE FISH; FIELD EQUIPMENT; FISH; SAMPLING;

EID: 0031406866     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1997)126<1041:EOANTO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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