Biology Department Guilford College 5800 West Friendly Ave.
Little information is available, however, on the growth-mortality relationship for most species.
We present three methods for estimating growth-mortality functions from readily obtainable field data. All use annual mortality rates and the recent growth rates of living and dead individuals. Annual mortality rates are estimated using both survival analysis and a Bayesian approach. Growth rates are obtained from increment cores. The three methods are compared using bootstrapped confidence intervals and likelihood ratio tests.