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Appendix 3: Quantitative Analysis of Skeletal Growth Records Part C: Probabilistic Population Descriptions
Book Title
Skeletal Growth of Aquatic Organisms: Biological Records of Environmental Change
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
978-0306402593
Publication Date
1980
Editors
Donald C. Rhoads and Richard A. Lutz
Keywords
Aquatic Animals, Growth, Ecology
Description
In this appendix we propose some probabilistic and statistical techniques for describing biological populations. The techniques are illustrated with actual data, obtained from studies of coral reefs in Bermuda. In our example, we use skeletal band counts, made for a small sample of corals, to construct an age-frequency description of the coral reef population. The techniques are quite general and are applicable whenever a quantifiable skeletal growth record is exhibited by an individual organism and when one is interested in estimating the frequency distribution of the same growth pattern in the species population.
In this appendix we propose some probabilistic and statistical techniques for describing biological populations. The techniques are illustrated with actual data, obtained from studies of coral reefs in Bermuda. In our example, we use skeletal band counts, made for a small sample of corals, to construct an age-frequency description of the coral reef population. The techniques are quite general and are applicable whenever a quantifiable skeletal growth record is exhibited by an individual organism and when one is interested in estimating the frequency distribution of the same growth pattern in the species population.
Publisher
Plenum Press
City
New York
Disciplines
Marine Biology
NSUWorks Citation
Vaisnys, J. Rimas and Richard E. Dodge. (1980). Appendix 3: Quantitative Analysis of Skeletal Growth Records Part C: Probabilistic Population Descriptions. In Donald C. Rhoads and Richard A. Lutz (Eds.), Skeletal Growth of Aquatic Organisms: Biological Records of Environmental Change .