Effect of individual variability on estimation of population parameters from length-frequency data

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2393-2401

  Wang, You Gan ^a,b   Ellis, Nick ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWTH; LENGTH-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

EID: 0032408261     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f98-134     Document Type: Article

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