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Special Issue: Age and Growth of Chondrichthyan Fishes: New Methods, Techniques and Analysis

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Editors:
  1. John K. Carlson

    1. National Marine Fisheries Service, Panama City, USA

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  2. Kenneth J. Goldman

    1. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Homer, USA

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  • Provides new information on the quantitative assessment of age and growth in Chondrichthyan fishes in one volume
  • A valuable resource for professionals, but even more so for students who wish to pursue this field of study

Part of the book series: Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes (DEBF, volume 25)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Acknowledgment of referees

    Pages 209-210

  3. Age and growth studies of chondrichthyan fishes: the need for consistency in terminology, verification, validation, and growth function fitting

    • Gregor M. Cailliet, Wade D. Smith, Henry F. Mollet, Kenneth J. Goldman
    Pages 211-228

  4. Age and growth of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in Hawaiian waters through vertebral analysis

    • Jason G. Romine, R. Dean Grubbs, John A. Musick
    Pages 229-239

  5. A re-examination of the age and growth of sand tiger sharks, Carcharias taurus, in the western North Atlantic: the importance of ageing protocols and use of multiple back-calculation techniques

    • Kenneth J. Goldman, Steven Branstetter, John A. Musick
    Pages 241-252

  6. Comparing external and internal dorsal-spine bands to interpret the age and growth of the giant lantern shark, Etmopterus baxteri (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae)

    • Sarah B. Irvine, John D. Stevens, Laurie J. B. Laurenson
    Pages 253-264

  7. The potential use of caudal thorns as a non-invasive ageing structure in the thorny skate (Amblyraja radiata Donovan, 1808)

    • Michael J. Gallagher, Marianne J. Green, Conor P. Nolan
    Pages 265-272

  8. Terminology for the ageing of chondrichthyan fish using dorsal-fin spines

    • Maurice W. Clarke, Sarah B. Irvine
    Pages 273-277

  9. Do differences in life history exist for blacktip sharks, Carcharhinus limbatus, from the United States South Atlantic Bight and Eastern Gulf of Mexico?

    • John K. Carlson, James R. Sulikowski, Ivy E. Baremore
    Pages 279-292

  10. Evidence of two-phase growth in elasmobranchs

    • Miguel Araya, Luis A. Cubillos
    Pages 293-300

  11. Two Bayesian methods for estimating parameters of the von Bertalanffy growth equation

    • Kate I. Siegfried, Bruno Sansó
    Pages 301-308

  12. A critical appraisal of marginal increment analysis for assessing temporal periodicity in band formation among tropical sharks

    • Rosângela Lessa, Francisco Marcante Santana, Paulo Duarte-Neto
    Pages 309-315

  13. Elemental signatures in the vertebral cartilage of the round stingray, Urobatis halleri, from Seal Beach, California

    • Loraine F. Hale, John V. Dudgeon, Andrew Z. Mason, Christopher G. Lowe
    Pages 317-325

  14. Bomb dating and age validation using the spines of spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

    • Steven E. Campana, Cynthia Jones, Gordon A. McFarlane, Sigmund Myklevoll
    Pages 327-336

  15. Investigations of Δ14C, δ 13C, and δ 15N in vertebrae of white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) from the eastern North Pacific Ocean

    • Lisa A. Kerr, Allen H. Andrews, Gregor M. Cailliet, Thomas A. Brown, Kenneth H. Coale
    Pages 337-353

  16. Application of bomb radiocarbon chronologies to shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) age validation

    • Daniele Ardizzone, Gregor M. Cailliet, Lisa J. Natanson, Allen H. Andrews, Lisa A. Kerr, Thomas A. Brown
    Pages 355-366

  17. Validated age and growth estimates for the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, in the North Atlantic Ocean

    • Lisa J. Natanson, Nancy E. Kohler, Daniele Ardizzone, Gregor M. Cailliet, Sabine P. Wintner, Henry F. Mollet
    Pages 367-383

  18. Validated age and growth of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo 1827) in the waters off Western Australia

    • Rory B. McAuley, Colin A. Simpfendorfer, Glenn A. Hyndes, Rick R. Allison, Justin A. Chidlow, Stephen J. Newman et al.
    Pages 385-400

  19. Analysis of variability in vertebral morphology and growth ring counts in two Carcharhinid sharks

    • Andrew N. Piercy, Travis S. Ford, Laura M. Levy, Franklin F. Snelson Jr
    Pages 401-406

  20. Morphometric minefields—towards a measurement standard for chondrichthyan fishes

    • Malcolm P. Francis
    Pages 407-421
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About this book

Over the last few years there have been advances in the quantitative study of age and growth of chondrichthyan fishes. Novel approaches to ageing of various chondrichthyan fishes continue to arise.

This volume is a collection of papers on several of these topics that include new hard parts (e.g. caudal thorns) for assessments of age, new techniques for validation (e.g. bomb radiocarbon) and reexaminations of previous age and growth models. This volume also contains papers on the importance of assessing the precision and accuracy of statistical formulas, analyses, and models that are used in age and growth studies. There is currently a great deal of research being conducted, some of which is truly "pushing the envelope," in attempts to assess the life history parameters of numerous chondrichthyan fishes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Marine Fisheries Service, Panama City, USA

    John K. Carlson

  • Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Homer, USA

    Kenneth J. Goldman

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