Growth of fishes, crustaceans and molluscs: Estimation of the von Bertalanffy, Logistic, Gompertz and Richards curves and a new growth model

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 282, Issue , 2004, Pages 237-244

  Hernandez Llamas, Alfredo ^a   Ratkowsky, David A ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gompertz; Growth modeling; Logistic; Richards; Von Bertalanffy

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; FISH; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH MODELING; MOLLUSC; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

CRUSTACEA; MOLLUSCA; PISCES;

EID: 10844258268     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps282237     Document Type: Article

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