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Are there habitat salinity markers of the Sr:Ca ratio in the otolith of wild diadromous fishes? A literature survey

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 30871920) and 973 project (2010CB429005).

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    Jian Yang & Hongbo Liu

  2. College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China

    Tao Jiang

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Yang, J., Jiang, T. & Liu, H. Are there habitat salinity markers of the Sr:Ca ratio in the otolith of wild diadromous fishes? A literature survey. Ichthyol Res 58, 291–294 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-011-0220-8

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