Predictions & Data for this entry

Model: std climate: Aw, Cfa migrate: phylum:
COMPLETE = 2.5 ecozone: THn food: biCv, biCi class:
MRE = 0.048 habitat: 0bTd, biFm, biFp, biFp, biFr gender: Dtfm order:
SMSE = 0.005 embryo: Tl reprod: O family:

Zero-variate data

Data Observed Predicted (RE) Unit Description Reference
ab 65 72.31 (0.1125) d age at birth myfwc
ap 4015 3770 (0.06105) d age at puberty for female mom
am 2.92e+04 2.919e+04 (0.0004325) d life span defenders
Lp 180 226.5 (0.2581) cm total length at puberty Wiki
Li 304 263 (0.135) cm ultimate total length for female myfwc
Lim 440 406.7 (0.07572) cm ultimate total length for male Wiki
Ww0 70 67.74 (0.03227) g egg wet weight DeemFerg1991
Wwim 4.5e+05 4.586e+05 (0.01907) g ultimate wet weight of male Wiki
Ri 0.126 0.1265 (0.003568) #/d reprod rate at 364 cm myfwc

Uni- and bivariate data

Data Figure Independent variable Dependent variable (RE) Reference
tL time since birth snout-to-vent length (0.02216) JacoKush1989

Pseudo-data at Tref = 20°C

Data Generalised animal Alligator mississippiensis Unit Description
v 0.02 0.03667 cm/d energy conductance
kap 0.8 0.8089 - allocation fraction to soma
kap_R 0.95 0.95 - reproduction efficiency
p_M 18 27.19 J/d.cm^3 vol-spec som maint
k_J 0.002 0.002 1/d maturity maint rate coefficient
kap_G 0.8 0.8012 - growth efficiency
k 0.3 0.5763 - maintenance ratio

Discussion

  • Males are assumed to differ from females by {p_Am} only
  • mod_1: k_J fixed at 0.002 J/d, food taken variable in tL data

Facts

  • temperature effects sex of neonate: below 30 C neonates are female and above 34 C male (Ref: Wiki)

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