Estimation of growth and mortality parameters from size frequency distributions lacking age patterns: The red sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) as an example

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1236-1247

  Smith, Barry D ^a   Botsford, Louis W ^b   Wing, Stephen R ^b,c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWTH RATE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS FRANCISCANUS;

EID: 0031773255     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f98-015     Document Type: Article

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