Ingestion-Limited Growth of Aquatic Animals: The Case for Blackman Kinetics

Abstract

The published data on ingestion-limited growth in aquatic animals is shown to be consistent with Blackman kinetics. As such, if ingestion limits growth rate there is a linear relationship between growth and ingestion from starvation to satiation. If, however, growth is limited by some factor other than ingestion rate, there is no increase in growth rate with increasing ingestion rate.Key words: ingestion, growth, growth efficiency, Blackman kinetics