ISSN:
1573-5133
Keywords:
Digestion rates
;
Food consumption models
;
Yellowfin tuna
;
Thunnus albacares
;
Fishes
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Synopsis Gastric evacuation rate estimates often suffer from an important bias caused by fitting experimentally-derived data distributions that are inherently constricted by the X-axis (Y = 0). Monte Carlo simulations were used to evaluate the bias. Truncating constricted distributions prior to curve fitting was suggested as a means to circumvent the problem. A food consumption model developed by D.S. Robson was presented. It employs the integral of the function fit to percentage gastric evacuation data, and does not require an a priori assumption of exponential gastric evacuation. The methods were illustrated using experimental gastric evacuation data and stomach contents data for fishery-caught yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00005170
