The blue shaded area depicts the standard deviation of the outputs of all models at a given timepoint. The models strongly diverge with some models predicting very high (Tarling et al. (2006) [52]) and others predicting very low (Jager and Ravagnan (2015) [48]) growth. Bottom: Environmental data (sea surface temperature and chlorophyll a concentration) time series used to drive the growth trajectories in the top panel. The three empirical models are labelled with an asterisk. For body sizes <35 mm, the models of Atkinson et al. (2006) [44] and Tarling et al. (2006) [52] operate using the “juvenile” parameterizations for daily growth rate, growth increment and IMP, for sizes >35 mm the model of Atkinson et al. (2006) [44] uses the “all krill” parameterizations, the model of Tarling et al. (2006) [52] the “adult female” paramterization for growth increment and IMP.).

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