From the forests to teeth: visual crossdating to refine age estimates in marine mammals
Estimation of the age of individuals is a fundamental parameter for understanding the biology of individuals and ecology of populations. Incremental growth deposits in tooth dentine or cementum, known as growth layer groups (GLGs), have been used to estimate the age of toothed marine mammals (odonto...
Published in: | Marine Mammal Science |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Soc Marine Mammalogy
2017
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Online Access: | https://eprints.utas.edu.au/44625/ https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12392 |