A Two-Phase Model for Smoothly Joining Disparate Growth Phases in the Macropodid Thylogale billardierii

Generally, sigmoid curves are used to describe the growth of animals over their lifetime. However, because growth rates often differ over an animal's lifetime a single curve may not accurately capture the growth. Broken-stick models constrained to pass through a common point have been proposed...

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Main Authors: McMahon, Clive R., Buscot, Marie-Jeanne, Wiggins, Natasha L., Collier, Neil, Maindonald, John H., McCallum, Hamish I., Bowman, David M. J. S.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192044/