Maturity ogives for South Pacific albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) that account for spatial and seasonal variation in the distributions of mature and immature fish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Farley, Jessica H ^a   Hoyle, Simon D ^b   Paige Eveson, J ^a   Williams, Ashley J ^b   Davies, Campbell R ^a   Nicol, Simon J ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODEL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IMMATURITY; LATITUDE; MATURITY; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION SIZE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAWNING; SPRING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUMMER; THUNNUS ALALUNGA; TIME; TUNA; WEIGHT; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVARY; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEASONS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; TUNA;

EID: 84897461573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083017     Document Type: Article

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