speciesfishmove


	Data of length and aspect ratio of the caudal fin <cite>(Pauly, 1989)</cite> for various fish species (appr. 40 species). Accompanying dataset for function <code>fishmove</code> originating from fishbase.org <cite>(Froese and Pauly, 2011)</cite>.


Functions to predict fish movement parameters plotting leptokurtic fish dispersal kernels (see Radinger and Wolter, 2014: Patterns and predictors of fish dispersal in rivers. Fish and Fisheries. 15:456-473.)

Johannes Radinger

fishmove

Prediction of Fish Movement Parameters

speciesfishmove function

This dataframe contains following columns:
  	<dl>
   		<dt>FAMILY</dt><dd>scientific name of fish family</dd> <dt>SPECIES</dt><dd>scientific name of fish species</dd> <dt>LENGTH</dt><dd>common fish length in mm</dd> <dt>ASPECT.RATIO</dt><dd>aspect ratio of the caudal fin <cite>(Pauly, 1989)</cite></dd> </dl> 

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Froese, R. and Pauly D. (2011)
	<em>FishBase.</em> World Wide Web electronic publication. <a href="/link/www.fishbase.org?package=fishmove&version=0.3-3" data-mini-rdoc="fishmove::www.fishbase.org">www.fishbase.org</a>, version (12/2011).

speciesfishmove: Morphological Data for various Fish Species

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