Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Managemen... - 9789400736788

Name: Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Managemen... - 9789400736788
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Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Management and EcologyAuthor(s): Bridget S. Green, Bruce D. Mapstone, Gary Carlos, Gavin A. Begg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer, Netherlands\nImprint: Springer\nISBN-13: 9789400736788, 978-9400736788\nSynopsis\nTechniques 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 fishs 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 .