Ages and lengths of Australian Bonito.

Description

Ages and lengths of Australian Bonito (Sarda australis).

Format

A data frame with the following 3 variables:

• sex: Sex (Female, Juvenile, Male).
• age: Age in decimal years.
• fl: Total length (to nearest 0.1 cm).

Topic(s)

• Growth
• Seasonal Growth
• von Bertalanffy
• Somers model

Source

From figure 3 of Stewart, J., W. Robbins, K. Rowling, A. Hegarty, and A. Gould. 2013. A multifaceted approach to modelling growth of the Australian bonito, Sarda australis (Family Scombridae), with some observations on its reproductive biology. Marine and Freshwater Research 64:671-678.

Examples

data(Bonito)
str(Bonito)
head(Bonito)
plot(fl~age,data=Bonito)