C.G. Johannes Petersen

Carl Georg Johannes Petersen (24 October 1860 – 11 May 1928) was a Danish marine biologist, especially fisheries biologist. He was the first to describe communities of benthic marine invertebrates and is often considered a founder of modern fisheries research. Especially he was the first to use the Mark and recapture method which he used to estimate the size of a Plaice population. The Lincoln-Petersen method (also known as the Petersen-Lincoln index) is named after him and Frederick Charles Lincoln who first described the method in 1930. [1][2][3] [4]

  1. ^ Southwood, T.R.E. & Henderson, P. (2000) Ecological Methods, 3rd edn. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
  2. ^ Petersen, C. G. J. (1896) "The Yearly Immigration of Young Plaice Into the Limfjord From the German Sea", Report of the Danish Biological Station (1895), 6, 5–84.
  3. ^ "Mark-Recapture". nau.edu. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  4. ^ I. B. J. Goudie and M. Goudie (2007). "Who Captures the Marks for the Petersen Estimator?". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society). 170 (3): 825–839. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00479.x. JSTOR 4623202.