Table 5.

Parameter estimates (expressed as medians with 2.5 and 97.5% quantiles). (−) means dimensionless; # means number of offspring per mother

Symbol	Unit	Meaning	Prior distribution	2.5% quantile	Median	97.5% quantile
b	day−1	Exponential decay rate of cadmium concentration	log$\mathcal{U}$nit(−5, 5)	0.156	0.167	0.181
τE	(μg/L)−2	Precision of exposure observations	$\mathcal{G}$amma(10−3, 10−3)	0.094	0.145	0.21
k D	day−1	Dominant rate constant	logUnit(−5, 1)	0.785	0.897	1.06
b BG	day−1	Background morality rate	log$\mathcal{U}$nit(−10, −4.5)	0.00107	0.00289	0.00663
z w	μg/L	No‐effect‐concentration for survival	log$\mathcal{U}$nit(−3, 3)	1.19	1.78	2.31
b w	μg/L per day	Survival killing rate	log$\mathcal{U}$nit(−5, 5)	6.62	15.7	43.2
L m	mm	Maximum body length	$\mathcal{N}$(4.77, 0.59)	4.84	5.13	5.45
γ	day−1	Von Bertalanffy growth rate	$\mathcal{N}$(0.11, 0.03)	0.0967	0.115	0.135
${\mathrm{\tau }}_{\mathrm{G}}$	mm−2	Precision of body length observations	$\mathcal{G}$amma(10‐3, 10‐3)	4.84	8.44	13.8
ℓp	−	Scaled body length at puberty	$\mathcal{N}$(0.49, 0.07)	0.457	0.534	0.609
R m	# day−1	Maximum reproduction rate	$\mathcal{N}$(10.7, 3.62)	12.3	15.1	18.5
p R	–	Dispersion of reproduction observations	$\mathcal{U}$nif(0, 1)	0.0835	0.13	0.19
z GR	μg/L	No‐effect‐concentration for growth and reproduction	log$\mathcal{U}$nif(−3, 3)	0.0524	0.15	1.02
b GR	μg/L per day	Growth and reproduction killing rate	log$\mathcal{U}$nif(−5, 5)	0.0192	0.032	0.0463