Table 1:

Summary of values used for green and white sturgeon allometric exponent determinantions and literature values of U_crit for other sturgeon species

Species	TL [cm (mean ± SEM)]	Ucrit		n	Temp. (°C)	Speed increment (cm s−1)	Time interval (min)	Age (dph)
		BL s−1	cm s −1
Siberian sturgeon	58.4 (0.6)1	1.8 (<0.1)	105.5 (0.0)	4	24	10	10	600
	64.3 (0.9)1	1.7 (0.1)	106.3 (0.1)	7	24	10	10	600
Shortnose sturgeon	7.1 (<0.1)2	3.2 (0.2)	22.3 (0.6)	71	15	3	20	y-o-y
	19.4 (0.1)2,3	1.5 (0.1)	29.5 (1.3)	6	10–25	5	30	255
Lake sturgeon	554	1.2	65		14		10
Amur sturgeon	18.8 (0.3)5	2.0 (0.1)	36.8 (1.9)	18	20	0.25 BL s−1	30
Chinese sturgeon	13.7 (2.0)6	2.6 (<0.1)	36.0 (5.0)	2	16–25	10	20	75–195
	24.5 (2.4)6	2.3 (0.1)	55.5 (2.5)	2	10–25	10	20	75–360
	35.36	2.0	70.0	1	10–16	10	20	255–360
	40.56	2.1	85.0	1	10–16	10	20	255–360
	54.8 (1.3)1	1.4 (<0.1)	77.8 (1.5)	7	24	10	10	600
	62.2 (0.7)1	1.3 (<0.1)	81.8 (3.8)	5	24	10	10	600
Pallid sturgeon	21.4 (0.3)7	1.7 (0.1)	35.9 (1.2)	8	20	5	30	180
Shovelnose sturgeon	23.1 (0.3)7	1.6 (1.2)	37.0 (1.4)	2	20	5	30	180
	57.0 (0)8	1.79 (0.2)	102.0 (14.0)	2	16	10	15
	67.2 (1.4)8	1.4 (0.2)	90.9 (14.8)	3	16	10	15
Green sturgeon	4.3 (0.2)9a	8.5 (0.4)	35.7 (1.7)	32	18–19	5	5	20–42
	6.5 (0.2)9b	7.1 (0.2)	45.3 (1.5)	40	18–19	5	10	34–60
	15.4 (0.6)10a	2.9 (0.1)	43.2 (1.3)	25	18–19	10	20	73–177
	22.1 (0.4)10a	2.2 (0.1)	48.1 (1.3)	27	18–19	10	20	73–177
	22.2 (0.6)11	2.4 (0.1)	52.9 (1.2)	20	18–19	5	5
	34.7 (0.6)10b	1.4 (0.1)	4.8 (1.5)	22	18–19	10	20	73–177
	44.1 (0.7)10b	1.0 (0.1)	44.9 (4.0)	9	18–19	10	20	73–177
	49.4 (0.6)12	1.2 (0.5)	57.5 (2.5)	53	18–19	10	30	320–360
	68.3 (2.7)13	1.2 (0.1)	79.2 (4.9)	11	19	10	20	340–360
White sturgeon	4.7 (0.2)9a	5.5 (0.2)	25.2 (1.1)	43	18–19	5	5	20–42
	8.0 (0.4)9c	4.6 (0.2)	35.3 (1.4)	44	18–19	5	10	34–60
	24.8 (0.8)11	2.6 (0.1)	64.2 (1.6)	23	18–19	5	5
	34.214	1.6	56.4	1	11–12.5	5	15
	38.3 (0.3)11	1.8 (0.1)	69.2 (2.2)	3	18–19	5	5

Abbreviation: BL, body length; dph, days post-hatch; TL, total length; U_crit, critical swimming velocity; y-o-y, young of the year.

¹Qu et al. (2013). ²Deslauriers and Kieffer (2012a). ³Deslauriers and Kieffer (2011).

⁴Peake et al. (1995), cited by Adams et al. (1997). ⁵Cai et al. (2013). ⁶He et al. (2013).

⁷Adams et al. (2003). ⁸Adams et al. (1997). ^9aPresent study, 2013 spawned.

^9bPresent study, 2011 spawned. ^9cPresent study, 2012 spawned.

^10aAllen et al. (2006a) saltwater-intolerant size range.

^10bAllen et al. (2006a) saltwater-tolerant range.

¹¹N. A. Fangue, unpublished data. ¹²Miller et al. (2014).

¹³Mayfield and Cech Jr (2004). ¹⁴Counihan and Frost (2011).