The growing degree-day and fish size-at-age : the overlooked metric

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Lifetime reproductive potential of female blue crabs Callinectes sapidus in North Carolina, USA (2009, unknown): “…as growing degree-days or heat units, has been used routinely in agriculture and phenology for over 2 centuries to predict flowering, fruiting, or harvesting dates (Wang 1960) and has more recently been applied to study fish (Neuheimer & Taggart 2007) and blue crab (Brylawski & Miller 2006) growth.”
Climate change effects on stream and river temperatures across the northwest U.S. from 1980–2009 and implications for salmonid fishes (2012, background): “…ecosystems are fundamentally important to fish and other aquatic organisms because most are ectotherms with physiologic processes directly controlled by temperatures of the ambient environment (Neuheimer and Taggart 2007; Buisson et al. 2008; Pörtner and Farrell 2008; Durance and Ormerod 2009).”
Water temperature modelling: comparison between the generalized additive model, logistic, residuals regression and linear regression models (2017, background): “Water temperature is a determining ecological factor for many biological parameters such as metabolic activity (Demars et al. 2011), reproduction, survival (Eaton et al. 1995, Connor et al. 2003) and growth rate (Elliott and Hurley 1997, Neuheimer and Taggart 2007).”