1. The importance of incorporating age and sex when backcalculating length in bullhead Cottus gobio.
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Kielbassa J, Charles S, and Delignette-Muller ML
- Subjects
- Age Factors, Animals, Female, Fishes growth & development, Fishes physiology, Male, Models, Biological, Sex Factors, Body Size, Fishes anatomy & histology
- Abstract
The present study backcalculated body length for a data set of a bullhead Cottus gobio population located at different sampling sites in a river network. Model comparison between various growth models, which included successively new parameters, showed the effect and importance of taking sex, age and the location in the river network into account. The data sets obtained by backcalculation were fitted by the von Bertalanffy growth function, which revealed the effect of the backcalculation formula on the estimation of the von Bertalanffy growth parameters. Fitting results and parameter estimates showed again the importance of incorporating age and sex when backcalculating body length in the C. gobio population studied., (© 2011 The Authors. Journal of Fish Biology © 2011 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles.)
- Published
- 2011
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