A generalized delury's method based on taylor's power law and its application to a pelagic species in Southern Lake Tanganyika

Fisheries Science

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 717-720

  Phiri, Harris ^a   Shirakihara, Kunio ^a   Yamakawa, Takashi ^a  

^a Lake Tanganyika Research Unit   (Zambia)

Author keywords

AIC; Catchability coefficient; DeLury's method; Lake tanganyika; Maximum likelihood method; Taylor's power law

Indexed keywords

EID: 18644370343     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.65.717     Document Type: Article

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