Editors:
- First compilation of otolith processing techniques for tropical fish
- Contributions by world leaders in tropical otolith research
- Contains theory and practical advice on processing and interpreting otoliths
- Compiles the practice of ageing tropical organisms within a theoretical and management context
Part of the book series: Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries (REME, volume 11)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Techniques and theory for processing otoliths from tropical marine fish have developed only recently due to an historic misconception that these organisms could not be aged. Otoliths are the most commonly used structures from which daily, seasonal or annual records of a fish’s environmental history are inferred, and are also used as indicators of migration patterns, home range, spatial distribution, stock structure and life history events. A large proportion of projects undertaken on tropical marine organisms involve removal and processing of calcified structures such as otoliths, statoliths or vertebrae to retrieve biological, biochemical or genetic information. Current techniques and principles have evolved rapidly and are under constant modification and these differ among laboratories, and more particularly among species and within life history stages.
Tropical fish otoliths: Information for assessment, management and ecology is a comprehensive description of the current status of knowledge about otoliths in the tropics. This book has contributions from leading experts in the field, encompassing a tropical perspective on daily and annual ageing in fish and invertebrates, microchemistry, interpreting otolith microstructure and using it to back-calculate life history events, and includes a treatise on the significance of validating periodicity in otoliths.
Editors and Affiliations
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Tasmanian Aquaculture & Fisheries Inst. Crustacean Research Group, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Bridget S. Green, Gary Carlos
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Centre for Australian Weather & Climate Research, A Research Partnership between CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart, Australia
Bruce D. Mapstone
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Dept. Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, Australia
Gavin A. Begg
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Management and Ecology
Editors: Bridget S. Green, Bruce D. Mapstone, Gary Carlos, Gavin A. Begg
Series Title: Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5775-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3582-1Published: 22 August 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3678-8Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5775-5Published: 07 August 2009
Series ISSN: 1571-3075
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 313
Topics: Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology