期刊
MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE
卷 27, 期 1, 页码 195-216出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00394.x
关键词
cetacean fetal growth; length-at-age; Tursiops truncatus; prenatal age; allometry; Gompertz; von Bertalanffy
资金
- Alliance for Marine Mammal Parks
- Aquaria and Marilee Menard
- NOAA
P>Compilation of marine mammal demographic data is central to management efforts. However, marine mammal length-at-age growth curves demonstrate limitations. Physiological growth parameters of terrestrial mammals are typically estimated using curvilinear models fit to size-at-age data along a time series from conception to senescence. The difficulty of collecting and aging prenatal cetaceans is addressed here, and growth parameters of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) along coastal Texas were estimated using length-at-age information from a broader scope of age classes, including late-term fetuses. A Gompertz growth curve fit to pre- and postnatal data underestimated size parameters, but demonstrated similar growth rate constants (k) to an exclusively postnatal model. However, when growth parameters were broken out, the absolute growth rate (G) and rate of growth decay (g) decreased (0.44 from 0.27 and 0.55 from 0.39, respectively), which underscores the importance of reporting k in its expanded form (G/g). Although the Gompertz fits most age classes well, it cannot explain growth in all age classes. We argue that a novel sigmoidal model would be more useful for inference.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据