growth_parameters {optistock}

Growth parameters for species used in examples

Description

This data.frame contains the growth parameters used in spp_examples. The growth parameters correspond with the von Bertalanfy growth curve (VBGF – see vbgf)

Usage

growth_parameters

Format

A data.frame with 7 fields and 6 records:

spp

Species common name

latin

Scientific name for the species

linf

The L_infinity parameters for the VBGF

k

The k parameter for the VBGF

t0

The t_0 parameter for the VBGF

n

Number of samples used. For WDNR data this is the number of paired length-at-age data points (WDNR, 2021). For FishBase it is the number of submitted entries.

source

Where data was retrieved from. WDNR is the Wisconsin Dep't of Natural Resources Fisheries Management Database. FishBase (Froese and Pauly, 2010) is FishBase.