Estimation of Parameters in a Bertalanffy Type of Temperature Dependent Growth Model Using Data on Juvenile Stone Loach (Barbatula barbatula)

Acta Biotheoretica - Tập 60 - Trang 393-405 - 2012
Johan Grasman1, Willem B. E. van Deventer2, Vincent van Laar2
1Biometris,, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands
2Department of Urban Ecology, City of Amersfoort, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Tóm tắt

Parameters of a Bertalanffy type of temperature dependent growth model are fitted using data from a population of stone loach (Barbatula barbatula). Over two periods respectively in 1990 and 2010 length data of this population has been collected at a lowland stream in the central part of the Netherlands. The estimation of the maximum length of a fully grown individual is given special attention because it is in fact found as the result of an extrapolation over a large interval of the entire lifetime. It is concluded that this parameter should not at forehand be set at one fixed value for the population at that location due to varying conditions over the years.

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