Comparative dispersal of larvae from demersal versus pelagic spawning fishes

MJH Hickford, DR Schiel - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2003 - int-res.com
We conducted ichthyoplankton surveys on the east coast of the South Island, New Zealand,
to address 2 questions:(1) Are certain types of reef fish larvae more likely to be dispersed on …

Fish larvae settling in seagrass: do they discriminate between beds of different leaf density?

JD Bell, M Westoby, AS Steffe - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and …, 1987 - Elsevier
A field experiment was designed to test the hypothesis that settling fishes do not discriminate
between artificial seagrass units (ASUs) with dense and sparse leaves, but do occur in …

Invertebrate dispersal and habitat heterogeneity: expression of biological traits in a seagrass landscape

C Boström, A Törnroos, E Bonsdorff - Journal of Experimental Marine …, 2010 - Elsevier
Seagrass meadows harbour diverse faunal assemblages, but the relative importance of
landscapes attributes, settlement processes and biological traits of individual species for …

How do demersal fishing fleets interact with aggregate extraction in a congested sea?

P Marchal, M Desprez, Y Vermard, A Tidd - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2014 - Elsevier
The effects of the aggregate extraction intensity and the distance to extraction sites on the
distribution of fishing effort were investigated for a broad selection of French and English …

Effects of the shoot density of seagrass on fish and decapods: are correlation evident over larger spatial scales?

DG Worthington, DJ Ferrell, SE McNeill, JD Bell - Marine Biology, 1992 - Springer
Two conflicting models for the organisation of assemblages of fish and decapods associated
with seagrass over large spatial scales, make contradictory predictions about the …

Dispersal of larvae with a short planktonic phase in the polychaete Spirorbis spirillum (Linnaeus)

JM Dirnberger - Bulletin of marine science, 1993 - ingentaconnect.com
In northwestern Gulf of Mexico bays, Spirorbis spirillum (Linnaeus), a sessile tube-building
polychaete, is a successful colonizer on ephemeral blades of the seagrass Thalassia …

Flow and transport characteristics at an Epinephelus guttatus (red hind grouper) spawning aggregation site in St. Thomas (US Virgin Islands)

LM Cherubin, RS Nemeth, N Idrisi - Ecological Modelling, 2011 - Elsevier
This study characterizes the flow field at a spawning site located at the shelf break of a
Caribbean island for the Epinephelus guttatus (red hind grouper) in relation to this species …

Abundance of fish and crustacean postlarvae on portable artificial seagrass units: daily sampling provides quantitative estimates of the settlement of new recruits

RA Kenyon, MDE Haywood, DS Heales… - Journal of Experimental …, 1999 - Elsevier
Artificial collectors and seagrass units have mainly provided qualitative samples of epifaunal
abundance or have been difficult and time-consuming to sample. Consequently, they are …

[图书][B] An evaluation of potential artefacts associated with conducting caging experiments in a seagrass environment

LJ Gallagher - 2001 - search.proquest.com
Despite potential artefacts that may confound the results of caging manipulations in soft
sediment environments, the results of this study suggest that careful planning limits the …

Drifting objects as habitat for pelagic juvenile fish off New South Wales, Australia

T Dempster, MJ Kingsford - Marine and Freshwater Research, 2004 - CSIRO Publishing
The importance of drifting objects to small juvenile pelagic fish was investigated off the coast
of New South Wales, Australia. Distance-related and temporal patterns in the distribution of …