Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Management and Ecology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Green, Bridget S. (Editor), Mapstone, Bruce D. (Editor), Carlos, Gary (Editor), Begg, Gavin A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 11
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Animal anatomy.; Wildlife.; Fish.; Life Sciences.; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.

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...