Predictions & Data for this entry

Model: abj	climate: MB	migrate:	phylum: Chordata
COMPLETE = 2.5	ecozone: MAE, MAm	food: biCi, biPz	class: Actinopterygii
MRE = 0.037	habitat: 0iMcd, 0iMr	gender: D	order: Syngnathiformes
SMSE = 0.003	embryo: Mbm	reprod: O	family: Syngnathidae

Zero-variate data

Data	Observed	Predicted	(RE)	Unit	Description	Reference
ab	21	21.01	(0.0002831)	d	age at birth	fishbase
tj	56	56.97	(0.01738)	d	time since birth at metam	CurtVinc2006
am	2008	2001	(0.003125)	d	life span	CurtVinc2006
Lb	1.2	1.08	(0.09967)	cm	total length at birth	CurtVinc2006
Lp	10.9	11.95	(0.09673)	cm	total length at puberty	CurtVinc2006
Li	21.5	23.46	(0.09115)	cm	ultimate total length	fishbase
Wwb	0.00239	0.002429	(0.01611)	g	wet weight at birth	PlanQuin2010
Wwp	3.4	3.29	(0.03242)	g	ultimate wet weight	fishbase
Wwi	25	24.86	(0.005478)	g	wet weight at puberty	fishbase
Ri	9.551	9.494	(0.005976)	#/d	maximum reprod rate	fishbase

Uni- and bivariate data

Data	Figure	Independent variable	Dependent variable	(RE)	Reference
LL_f		standard length at t	standard length at t+1 yr	(0.0313)	CurtVinc2006
LL_m		standard length at t	standard length at t+1 yr	(0.04135)	CurtVinc2006

Pseudo-data at T_ref = 20°C

Data	Generalised animal	Hippocampus guttulatus	Unit	Description
v	0.02	0.02032	cm/d	energy conductance
kap	0.8	0.6695	-	allocation fraction to soma
kap_R	0.95	0.95	-	reproduction efficiency
p_M	18	29.25	J/d.cm^3	vol-spec som maint
k_J	0.002	0.002	1/d	maturity maint rate coefficient
kap_G	0.8	0.8014	-	growth efficiency

Discussion

• Temperatures are guessed, except for ab
• Masles are assumed not to differ from females

Facts

• Preferred temperature for reproduction is 18.6 C (Ref: fishbase)
• length-weight: Ww in g = 0.00302*(TL in cm)^2.94 (Ref: fishbase)

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