Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Management and Ecology

Chapter 1 Introduction to Otoliths and Fisheries in the Tropics

Chapter 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?

Chapter 3 Age in Years from Otoliths of Adult Tropical Fish

Chapter 4 Daily Otolith Increments in the Early Stages of Tropical Fish

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

Chapter 6 The Back-Calculation of Fish Growth From Otoliths

Chapter 7 Otolith Microstructure in Tropical Fish

Chapter 8 Otolith Chemistry

Chapter 9 Tropical Otoliths – Where to Next?

Chapter 10 Alternatives to Sectioned Otoliths: The use of other Structures and Chemical Techniques to Estimate Age and Growth for Marine Vertebrates and Invertebrates