Effects of Habitat and Growth Factor on Natural Mortality Rate in North American Fish Species

• Sierra Nawalinski

  Juniata College

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• Sophia Parlati

  Juniata College

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• Cole Osmun

  Juniata College

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• Hunter Wacik

  Juniata College

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Our data were collected by the Virginia Marine Institute of native fish from all over the world. Our hypothesis tests were whether temperature decreases or increases growth rate among fish. There were statistical data taken on preferred water temperatures, Mortality rate, quantitative and qualitative data, family, genus, the specific location they were captured and sex of the species of fish that were captured. According to the statistical data we captured and as well as analyzed multiple sets of confirmed data and graphed according to our hypothesis. In conclusion, we rejected our hypothesis due to the fact that our data analysis such as r-squared and temperature did not correlate with the mortality rate.

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