Most marine fishes have pelagic larvae that settle to benthic juvenile/adult habitats.
Ecologists have argued that mortality rates are particularly high during the settlement …

Many plant and animal aggregations have size hierarchies within which a variety of sizes of
individuals, from large to small, can be found. Size hierarchies are thought to indicate the …

Increases in sediment and drift algae accumulations have caused degradation of coastal
lagoons worldwide. It is well known that these factors are stressors of seagrass beds …

We tested the rarely considered hypothesis that the ultraviolet portion (UVR, 280–400 nm) of
the light spectrum affects patterns of recruitment in reef-building corals. The premise for this …

Despite considerable interest in the effects of natal experience on habitat selection, little
attention has been paid to the adaptive significance of this behaviour. Here we suggest that …

Many coral recruits are very small and often cryptic at settlement making them difficult to
detect with normal census techniques. Here we show that fluorescence census techniques …

Ecological processes that differentiate and maintain intertidal populations of mussels, Perna
canaliculus, were studied within three sites at Ninety Mile Beach, northern New Zealand. At …

The larvae of the arborescent bryozoan Bugula neritina are chemically defended against
predators by unpalatable secondary metabolites called bryostatins. Bryostatins, polyketide …

Marine organisms have evolved defence mechanisms to prevent epibiosis. This study
investigated the anti-settlement properties of natural periostracal microtopographies of two …

The distribution of intertidal organisms can often be determined by processes operating at
the time of recruitment. Recruitment has been demonstrated to influence the composition of …