Is tagging with visual implant elastomer a reliable technique for marking earthworms?;A etiquetagem de minhocas com implante visual de elastômero é uma técnica confiável?

Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 969-974

  Butt, Kevin Richard ^a   Briones, Maria Jesús Iglesias ^b   Lowe, Christopher Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture methods; Chlorogogenous tissue; Longevity; Lumbricidae; Monitoring; Population

Indexed keywords

LUMBRICIDAE;

EID: 77349108119     PISSN: 0100204X     EISSN: 16783921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2009000800026     Document Type: Article

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