Measurement of sponge growth by projected body area and underwater weight

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 419-426

  Osinga, Ronald ^a   Redeker, David ^a   De Beukelaer, Peter B ^a   Wijffels, René H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Growth monitoring; Porifera; Projected body area; Pseudosuberites andrewsi; Underwater weight

Indexed keywords

GROWTH DETERMINATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SPONGE;

PORIFERA; PSEUDOSUBERITES ANDREWSI;

EID: 0033498156     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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