A new technique for measuring size distributions of fine ingesta/digesta particles

Wildlife Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 191-194

  Logan, Murray ^a   Sanson, Gordon D ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; STOMACH CONTENT;

EID: 0033998077     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR99010     Document Type: Article

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