Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Management and Ecology
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 annu
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Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries VOLUME 11 Series editor:
Jennifer L. Nielsen U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center Anchorage, Alaska
For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6481
Bridget S. Green · Bruce D. Mapstone · Gary Carlos · Gavin A. Begg Editors
Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Management and Ecology
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Editors Bridget S. Green University of Tasmania Tasmanian Aquaculture & Fisheries Inst. Crustacean Research Group Hobart TAS 7001 Australia [email protected] Gary Carlos University of Tasmania Tasmanian Aquaculture & Fisheries Inst. Crustacean Research Group Hobart TAS 7001 Australia
Bruce D. Mapstone Centre for Australian Weather & Climate Research, A Research Partnership between CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology GPO Box 1538 Hobart TAS Australia Gavin A. Begg Bureau of Rural Sciences Dept. Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
ISSN 1571-3075 ISBN 978-1-4020-3582-1 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-5775-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-5775-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933461 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover photo: Section from a sagittal otolith of a 17 year old Pomacentrus moluccensis, a tropical damselfish growing to a maximum size of 9cm TL. Photo courtesy of Tony Fowler, SARDI South Australia. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
PREFACE
When we commenced discussions about the need for this book there was a general lack of information on ageing tropical fishes and the broader use of information derived from calcified structures in tropical organisms. This deficiency was largely propagated by an historic misconception that tropical organisms could not be aged reliably from calcareous structures because of the assumed lack of seasonality in tropical environments. Since those initial discussions, significant research has occurred over the past decade on ageing and analysis of the composition and morphology of calcified structures, particularly otoliths, from tropical organisms. The aim of this book is to provide a compilation of this research on key concepts and practical techniques for deriving biological information from otoliths and other calcified structures in tropical aquatic organisms. Importantly, we do not attempt to replace the significant and expansive work that has occurred on temperate species which we direct readers to research (e.g., Secor et al. 1991, Panfili et al. 2002, Campana 2004), but to complement these volumes with a single, comprehensive
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