Recruitment failure has been implicated in the decline of several abalone fisheries.
Traditionally, fisheries scientists invoke theoretical stock-recruitment relationships to predict …

Larvae of benthic invertebrates are exposed to a variety of chemical cues, many of biological
origin, as they near a potential settlement surface. One such cue is the bioorganic film that …

Abundance of early juvenile Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) is dramatically higher in
intertidal shell habitats compared to mud habitats in several coastal estuaries of the Pacific …

Populations of fishes on coral reefs are replenished by the settlement of pelagic larvae to
demersal populations. Recruitment varies spatially and temporally and can exert strong …

Experiments were performed on the Great Barrier Reef, at Orpheus lsland (18" 40'S, 145"
30'E) and Lizard Island (14" 41'S, 145" 28'E), Australia, to examine allelopathic effects of soft …

For species recruiting into established sessile communities, the adult colonies and
individuals already present form a significant part of the environment and have the potential …

Publisher Summary This chapter evaluates evidence that recruitment dynamics of
component species can exert a strong effect on processes at a community level. The chapter …

Survival and growth of newly settled oysters were measured at sub-and mtertidal treatment
levels during the first month of post-settlement life in the York River, Virginia, USA …

A series of multifactorial experiments were carried out, in the field and in a flume, to test the
hypothesis that early recruitment of semimobile bivalve spat on an epibenthic filamentous …

We quantified variability in daily settlement of blue crab postlarvae (megalopae) on identical
artificial settlement substrates at up to 6 sites concurrently over a broad geographic expanse …