Clarification regarding population growth rate parameters used for Southern Hemisphere humpback whales analyses
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2007
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Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 9 (Suppl)
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International Whaling Commission (IWC)
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University of Cape Town
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Papers on the dynamics of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales have described their growth rates in different ways. To attempt a simple summary, the following have been used (sometimes with different symbols to denote them or different forms of words to describe them): d : instantaneous growth rate (units yr–1) (sometimes indicated as r) l : annual growth rate (units yr–1) r : intrinsic growth rate (units yr–1) (sometimes indicated as rmax)
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Butterworth, D.S. (2007). Clarification regarding population growth rate parameters used for Southern Hemisphere humpback whales analyses. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 9 (Suppl). p209