Accounting for Age Uncertainty in Growth Modeling, the Case Study of Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares) of the Indian Ocean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Dortel, Emmanuelle ^a   Massiot Granier, Félix ^b   Rivot, Etienne ^b   Million, Julien ^c   Hallier, Jean Pierre ^a   Morize, Eric ^d   Munaron, Jean Marie ^d   Bousquet, Nicolas ^e   Chassot, Emmanuel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^c Indian Ocean Tuna Commission   (Seychelles)

^d IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^e NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; CALCULATION; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; INDIAN OCEAN; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY; YELLOWFIN TUNA; AGE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUNA;

THUNNUS ALBACARES; VERTEBRATA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; FEMALE; INDIAN OCEAN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TUNA; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84876560416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060886     Document Type: Article

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