The feasibility of bomb radiocarbon analysis to support an age-at-length relationship for red abalone, Haliotis rufescens swainson in northern California

Journal of Shellfish Research

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1177-1182

  Leaf, Robert T ^a,c   Andrews, Allen H ^a   Cailliet, Gregor M ^a   Brown, Thomas A ^b  

^a MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerator mass spectrometry; Carbon 14; Haliotidae; Von Bertalanffy growth function

Indexed keywords

HALIOTIDAE; HALIOTIS RUFESCENS;

EID: 58149252265     PISSN: 07308000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2983/0730-8000-27.5.1177     Document Type: Article

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