Recent advances in our understanding of the self-recruitment and connectivity of estuarine
and coastal fauna and flora were made possible by an integration of physical …

Movements of organisms, energy and nutrients link populations, habitats, food webs and
ecosystems across the boundaries of seascapes and landscapes (Loreau et al. 2003; …

Connectivity links habitats in space and time. It is a key process that facilitates many life-
history functions of myriad species in a variety of contexts over a wide range of scales …

Connectivity among marine populations is critical for persistence of metapopulations, coping
with climate change, and determining the geographic distribution of species. The influence …

Over the last million years, fish species presently of significant economic importance
(including species of cod, haddock, hake, herring, mackerel, and others) have evolved …

Due to the presence of the complex life cycles involving a benthic adult and a pelagic larval
phase, the study of benthic community dynamics cannot ignore investigations of the …

The dependence on connectivity and use of estuaries by two major groups of fishes, namely
estuary-associated marine and diadromous species, are reviewed. The former group …

THERE IS GROWING consensus that life within the world's ocean is under considerable and
increasing stress from human activities (Hutchings, 2000; Jackson et al., 2001). This …

Connectivity is the linking of subpopulations among estuaries via genetic or demographic
movements. We review the ways in which marine and terrestrial species connect between …

Aggregations of zooplankton, micronekton and fish are frequently observed above
seamounts, canyons and shelf breaks. The aggregations are produced by five different …