Cyprid larvae of barnacles are developmentally competent to carefully explore hard surfaces
and to discriminate among various environmental cues, thus making them capable …

The structure of Caribbean coral reef communities has been altered by numerous
anthropogenic and natural stressors. Demographic studies of key functional groups have …

Large populations of the sea urchin Diadema aff. antillarum occur in the east Atlantic
archipelagos. The origin and stability of these large herbivorous populations are not well …

During their transition from the pelagic larval form to the benthic adult form, larvae are likely
to encounter a diverse assemblage of resident invertebrates on oyster reefs. Fouling …

There are approximately a dozen species of commercially interesting barnacles worldwide,
some of which have been cultured on a semi‐industrial scale. These species are listed and …

In advection‐dominated systems (both freshwater and marine), population dynamics are
usually presumed to be dominated by the effects of migrants dispersing by advection …

A primary goal of ecology is to understand population dynamics by quantifying key
processes that regulate population densities through time. Change to any one process may …

Settlement is an important process in the biphasic life histories of many marine
invertebrates. Little is known regarding the fine‐scale behavioral mechanisms for finding …

Species range limits are often associated with reduced adult densities, and this may reflect
the failure of a particular life-history stage. For benthic marine invertebrates, settlement is a …

In macrobenthos with meroplanktonic larvae, larval settlement and recruitment are two
crucial processes for population cohort formation, yet only a few studies have given explicit …