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Comparison of two scanning electron microscope techniques for examining daily growth increments on fish otoliths
Author(s) -
Waldron M. E.,
Gerneke D. A.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1997.tb01373.x
Subject(s) - biology , fish <actinopterygii> , detector , backscatter (email) , scanning electron microscope , fishery , optics , physics , telecommunications , computer science , wireless
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.