Fitting growth curves to retrospective size-at-age data

Fisheries Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 123-129

  Jones, Cynthia M ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Back calculation; NLLS regression; Repeated measures; Von Bertalanffy growth curves

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FISH BIOLOGY; GROWTH RATE;

EPINEPHELUS MARIO;

EID: 0034112781     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(00)00139-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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