Comparison of two scanning electron microscope techniques for examining daily growth increments on fish otoliths.

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1997

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Authors
Waldron, M
Gerneke, D
Journal Title

Journal of Fish Biology

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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1095-8649
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Wiley

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University of Cape Town

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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Abstract
With a secondary detector and a backscatter detector, total primary increment counts on the same otoliths were similar, but more samples could be counted using the backscatter detector and the percentage of unreadable area was consistently lower with this technique.
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primary growth increments
secondary detector
backscatter detector

Reference:

Waldron, M. E., & Gerneke, D. A. (1997). Comparison of two scanning electron microscope techniques for examining daily growth increments on fish otoliths. Journal of fish biology, 50(2), 450-454.

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