VBGMlit: Von Bertalanffy parameter estimates from the literature.

In droglenc/FSAsim: Simulate Data for Fisheries Stock Assessment Methods

Description

A list of parameter estimates for the traditional von Bertalanffy growth model from published results in the literature.

Format

A data frame with 87 observations on the following 4 variables:

Species

Species names.

Linf

Values of the Linf parameter.

K

Values of the K parameter.

t0

Values of the t0 parameter.

Details

Several species have NA for the t0 parameter.

Topic(s)

• Growth

• von Bertalanffy

Source

Most of the data presented comes from – He, Ji X. and D.J. Stewart. 2001. Age and size at first reproduction of fishes: predictive models based only on growth trajectories. Ecology, 82:784-792. esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E082/006/appendix-A.htm.

Examples

data(VBGMlit)
str(VBGMlit)
head(VBGMlit)

droglenc/FSAsim documentation built on Feb. 15, 2020, 11:20 p.m.