Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Management and Ecology

1. Introduction to Otoliths and Fisheries in the Tropics
Bridget S. Green, Bruce D. Mapstone, Gary Carlos, Gavin A. Begg

2. 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

3. Age in Years from Otoliths of Adult Tropical Fish
A.J. Fowler

4. Daily Otolith Increments in the Early Stages of Tropical Fish
Su Sponaugle

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

6. The Back-Calculation of Fish Growth From Otoliths
Laurent Vigliola, Mark G. Meekan

7. Otolith Microstructure in Tropical Fish
Jacques Panfili, Javier TomÁS, Beatriz Morales-Nin

8. Otolith Chemistry
Simon R. Thorrold, Stephen E. Swearer

9. Tropical Otoliths – Where to Next?
Bridget S. Green, Bruce D. Mapstone, Gary Carlos, Gavin A. Begg

Keywords: Life Sciences, Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology