Improving pinniped diet analyses through identification of multiple skeletal structures in fecal samples

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 423-433

  Browne, Patience ^a   Laake, Jeffrey L ^a   DeLong, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; FECAL PELLET; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; MARINE MAMMAL; PINNIPED; SKELETAL REMAINS;

PHOCA VITULINA;

EID: 0036321119     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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