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Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Management and Ecology

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Editors:
  1. Bridget S. Green

    1. Tasmanian Aquaculture & Fisheries Inst. Crustacean Research Group, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

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  2. Bruce D. Mapstone

    1. Centre for Australian Weather & Climate Research, A Research Partnership between CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart, Australia

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  3. Gary Carlos

    1. Tasmanian Aquaculture & Fisheries Inst. Crustacean Research Group, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

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  4. Gavin A. Begg

    1. Dept. Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, Australia

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction to Otoliths and Fisheries in the Tropics

    • Bridget S. Green, Bruce D. Mapstone, Gary Carlos, Gavin A. Begg
    Pages 1-22

  3. Ageing in Coral Reef Fishes: Do we Need to Validate the Periodicity of Increment Formation for every species of Fish for which we collect age-based Demographic Data?

    • J.H. Choat, J.P. Kritzer, J.L. Ackerman
    Pages 23-54

  4. Age in Years from Otoliths of Adult Tropical Fish

    • A.J. Fowler
    Pages 55-92

  5. Daily Otolith Increments in the Early Stages of Tropical Fish

    • Su Sponaugle
    Pages 93-132

  6. Alternatives to Sectioned Otoliths: The use of other Structures and Chemical Techniques to Estimate Age and Growth for Marine Vertebrates and Invertebrates

    • Natalie Moltschaniwskyj, Mike Cappo
    Pages 133-173

  7. The Back-Calculation of Fish Growth From Otoliths

    • Laurent Vigliola, Mark G. Meekan
    Pages 174-211

  8. Otolith Microstructure in Tropical Fish

    • Jacques Panfili, Javier TomÁS, Beatriz Morales-Nin
    Pages 212-248

  9. Otolith Chemistry

    • Simon R. Thorrold, Stephen E. Swearer
    Pages 249-295

  10. Tropical Otoliths – Where to Next?

    • Bridget S. Green, Bruce D. Mapstone, Gary Carlos, Gavin A. Begg
    Pages 296-301

  11. Alternatives to Sectioned Otoliths: The use of other Structures and Chemical Techniques to Estimate Age and Growth for Marine Vertebrates and Invertebrates

    Pages E1-E1

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 302-313
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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

  • Tasmanian Aquaculture & Fisheries Inst. Crustacean Research Group, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

    Bridget S. Green, Gary Carlos

  • Centre for Australian Weather & Climate Research, A Research Partnership between CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart, Australia

    Bruce D. Mapstone

  • Dept. Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, Australia

    Gavin A. Begg

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