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Table 1 Growth indices for M. arenaria from different locations

From: The clam sipho as indicator for growth indices in the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria

Location (author) (used model)

K

L

OGP [φ]

Sugatuck River, USA (Brousseau and Bagivlo 1987) (sVBGF)

0.05

81.10

2.52

Roskilde Fjord, Denmark (Munch-Peterson 1973) (sVBGF)

0.30

60.10

3.03

Kandalasksha Bay (Site A), Russia (Maximovich and Guerassimova 2003) (sVBGF)

0.20

49.40

2.68

Inner Oslo fjord, Norway (Winther and Gray 1985) (sVBGF)

0.10

109.38

3.08

Potato Island, Nova Scotia, USA (Appeldoorn 1983) (sVBGF)

0.10

81.55

2.81

Breitling, Baltic Sea, Germany (present study) (sVBGF)

0.16

87.37

3.09

Breitling, Baltic Sea, Germany (present study) (Gompertz)

0.47

62.56

3.26

  1. K = growth factor, L  = asymptotic shell-length (mm), and OGP [φ] = overall growth performance after Munro and Pauly (1983)