Accuracy, precision and quality control in age determination, including a review of the use and abuse of age validation methods

By S. Campana. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Global and Planetary Change

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Maturity and growth characteristics of a commercially exploited stingray, Dasyatis dipterura (2007, methodology): “Although commonly employed as a semi-direct validation method, marginal increment analysis has often been applied inappropriately and may be of low resolution (Campana 2001).”
Diet of invasive lionfish on hard bottom reefs of the Southeast USA: insights from stomach contents and stable isotopes (2011, background): “Values of < 10% CV are a general benchmark for adequate precision in age and growth studies (Campana 2001, Bizzarro et al. 2007).”
Admitting ageing error when fitting growth curves: an example using the von Bertalanffy growth function with random effects (2007, background): “Although nonrandom errors between readers can be corrected with further training, systematic nonrandom errors in the growth structure itself can be harder to resolve (Campana 2001).”
Demography of a large grouper, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus, from Australia's Great Barrier Reef: implications for fishery management (2006, positive): “A reference collection of sections (n = 20) covering the full size range of Epinephelus fuscoguttatus sampled was produced to establish consensus of age estimates by experienced readers (Campana 2001).”
Fisheries oceanography and the ecology of early life histories of fishes: a perspective over fifty years (2005, neutral): “, days, by counting daily increments on otoliths (e.g. Jones, 1986; Campana, 2001), resulted in a explosion of research and consequent information about growth in early life.”
Seasonality in the deep sea and tropics revisited: what can otoliths tell us? (2005, methodology): “The radiochemical dating, restricting the assay to the extracted otolith core, can be considered as one of the best methods for age estimation in long-lived fish, and hence for validation purposes (Campana 2001).”
Ageing seabreams: A comparative study between scales and otoliths (2008, background): “Age information is important as it forms the basis for the calculations of growth and mortality rates and productivity estimates (Campana, 2001), making it essential for fisheries management (Casselman, 1987; Cailliet et al.”
Using tree-ring crossdating techniques to validate annual growth increments in long-lived fishes (2005, background): “Presently, mark–recapture studies are considered to be the most precise and accurate means of age validation (Beamish and McFarlane 1983; Campana 2001).”
Growth, Fecundity, and Diets of Newly Established Silver Carp in the Middle Mississippi River (2005, methodology): “A coefficient of variation was calculated to determine aging precision ( Campana 2001 ).”
Age estimation obtained from analysis of octopus (Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797) beaks: Improvements and comparisons (2010, methodology): “This method is favoured for microstructure studies as it is statistically more rigorous and thus more flexible than the use of average percent error (APE) because of the absence of an assumed proportionality between the standard deviation and the mean (Campana, 2001).”
A statistical framework to explore ontogenetic growth variation among individuals and populations: a marine fish example (2015, background): “…and increase the amount of unexplained variance in the model (1– R2LMMðcÞ; Table 4) include measurement error and aging error, although in this instance, these are unlikely to introduce large amounts of variation due to relatively high aging precision (Campana 2001) and large sample sizes.”