Special Issue: Age and Growth of Chondrichthyan Fishes: New Methods, Techniques and Analysis

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Carlson, John K. (Editor ), Goldman, Kenneth J. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes, 25
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5570-6
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgment of referees
  • Age and growth studies of chondrichthyan fishes: the need for consistency in terminology, verification, validation, and growth function fitting
  • Age and growth of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in Hawaiian waters through vertebral analysis
  • A re-examination of the age and growth of sand tiger sharks, Carcharias taurus, in the western North Atlantic: the importance of ageing protocols and use of multiple back-calculation techniques
  • Comparing external and internal dorsal-spine bands to interpret the age and growth of the giant lantern shark, Etmopterus baxteri (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae)
  • The potential use of caudal thorns as a non-invasive ageing structure in the thorny skate (Amblyraja radiata Donovan, 1808)
  • Terminology for the ageing of chondrichthyan fish using dorsal-fin spines
  • Do differences in life history exist for blacktip sharks, Carcharhinus limbatus, from the United States South Atlantic Bight and Eastern Gulf of Mexico?
  • Evidence of two-phase growth in elasmobranchs
  • Two Bayesian methods for estimating parameters of the von Bertalanffy growth equation
  • A critical appraisal of marginal increment analysis for assessing temporal periodicity in band formation among tropical sharks
  • Elemental signatures in the vertebral cartilage of the round stingray, Urobatis halleri, from Seal Beach, California
  • Bomb dating and age validation using the spines of spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)
  • Investigations of ?14C, ? 13C, and ? 15N in vertebrae of white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) from the eastern North Pacific Ocean
  • Application of bomb radiocarbon chronologies to shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) age validation
  • Validated age and growth estimates for the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, in the North Atlantic Ocean
  • Validated age and growth of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo 1827) in the waters off Western Australia
  • Analysis of variability in vertebral morphology and growth ring counts in two Carcharhinid sharks
  • Morphometric minefields—towards a measurement standard for chondrichthyan fishes.