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The Locomotor Activity of Fish: An Analogy to the Kinetics of an Opposed First‐Order Chemical Reaction
Author(s) -
Ellgaard Erik G.,
Bloom Kerry S.,
Malizia Anthony A.,
Gunning Gerald E.,
Jensen Richard E.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1975)104<752:tlaof>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - lepomis macrochirus , kinetics , fish <actinopterygii> , reaction rate constant , population , chemical kinetics , chemistry , first order , reaction rate , order of reaction , thermodynamics , computational chemistry , biology , mathematics , physics , fishery , organic chemistry , classical mechanics , demography , catalysis , sociology
The kinetic behavior of a laboratory population of bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) under defined laboratory conditions is shown to be analogous to the reaction kinetics described by a population of molecules engaged in an opposed (reversible) first‐order reaction. Thus as in chemical kinetics, the locomotor activity of fish can be described quantitatively in the form of rate constants.