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Ages and lengths of Australian Bonito.

Source: R/Bonito.R
Bonito.Rd

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).

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. CSV file

Topic(s)

  • Growth

  • Seasonal Growth

  • von Bertalanffy

  • Somers model

Examples

data(Bonito)
str(Bonito)
#> 'data.frame':	251 obs. of  3 variables:
#>  $ sex: Factor w/ 3 levels "Female","Juvenile",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 ...
#>  $ age: num  0.167 0.167 0.167 0.167 0.167 ...
#>  $ fl : num  30.3 30.5 28.8 26.3 31.9 32.4 29.8 27.8 34 31.2 ...
head(Bonito)
#>      sex       age   fl
#> 1 Female 0.1666667 30.3
#> 2 Female 0.1666667 30.5
#> 3 Female 0.1666667 28.8
#> 4 Female 0.1666667 26.3
#> 5 Female 0.1666667 31.9
#> 6 Female 0.1666667 32.4
plot(fl~age,data=Bonito)