Ages and lengths of Eastern Mosquitofish from ten locations from southern France to southern Spain.

Description

Ages and lengths of Eastern Mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) from ten locations from southern France to southern Spain.

Format

A data frame with the following 8 variables:

• site: Site (as a name) of capture.
• sitenum: Site (as a number) of capture.
• day: Day of capture.
• month: Month of capture.
• year: Year of capture.
• sl: Standard length (to nearest 0.01 cm).
• age: Age in integer years.
• age2: Age in decimal years.

Topic(s)

• Growth
• Seasonal Growth
• von Bertalanffy
• Somers model

Source

From figure 3 of Carmona-Catot, G., A.F.G.N. Santos, P.A. Tedesco, and E. Garcia-Berthou. 2014. Quantifying seasonality along a latitudinal gradient: From stream temperature to growth of invasive mosquitofish. Ecosphere 5:134.

Examples

data(Mosquitofish)
str(Mosquitofish)
head(Mosquitofish)
plot(sl~age2,data=Mosquitofish)