Somatic growth is a fundamental property of living organisms, and is of particular importance
for species with indeterminate growth that can change in size continuously throughout their …

The bones and scales of fish are a rich source of information, for they encode in their
microstructure the fish's age and growth history. The growth history in the hard part is used to …

Here l (t) is the mean length at age t. Ifˆβ 1 andˆβ 2 are two estimates of β, how do we test
whether the corresponding two growth curves are the same? The traditional way is to …

The von Bertalanffy growth equation (VBGE) is commonly used in ecology and fisheries
management to model individual growth of an organism. Generally, a nonlinear regression …

The fundamental features of growth may be universal, because growth trajectories of most
animals are very similar, but a unified mechanistic theory of growth remains elusive. Still …

The two most common ways of estimating fish growth use age–length data and tagging data.
It is shown that growth parameters estimated from these two types of data have different …

Explored were methods to derive preliminary information on growth from other known life
history parameters such as maximum size and size and age at first maturity. Use was made …

All organisms grow. Numerous growth functions have been applied to a wide taxonomic
range of organisms, yet some of these models have poor fits to empirical data and lack of …

It is often assumed that the von Bertalanffy growth model (VBGM) is appropriate to describe
growth in length-at-age of elasmobranchs. However, a review of the literature suggests that …

We compared the von Bertalanffy growth function (VBGF) and five polynomial functions (PF)
in modelling fish growth for 16 populations comprising six species of freshwater fishes …