The timing of larval release within reproductive seasons is synchronized by shorter
environmental periodicities, including light-dark, lunar, tidal, and tidal amplitude cycles …

Behavioral responses to environmental factors at the planktonic larval stage can have a
crucial influence on habitat selection and therefore adult distributions in many benthic …

Invasions of fouling organisms that colonize artificial structures are modifying coastal
environments. Our goal was to assess harbor conditions including dissolved copper …

Whether ecosystems recover from disturbance depends on the presence of alternative
stable states, which are theoretically possible in simple models of many systems. However …

Stock–recruitment relationships (SRR) are used by many resource managers as a metric to
evaluate stock reproductive potential and rebuilding capacity when harvested. This …

Ports have long been considered 'high-risk'areas for the introduction of non-native species
(NNS) and should therefore be a focus of NNS monitoring. The industrial nature of active …

Many species use dormant stages for habitat selection by tying recovery to informative
external cues. Other species have an undiscerning strategy in which they recover randomly …

Settlement and metamorphosis constitute, arguably, the most complex period in the life
history of marine invertebrate larvae. Chemical cues that induce settlement provide a …

Ocean acidification has been investigated extensively in scleractinian corals, but studies on
different life stages of the same species are lacking. We investigated the response of recruits …

Austrominius modestus, formerly Elminius modestus, is a relatively small species of four-
plated acorn barnacle, which is native to the subtropical and temperate zones of Australasia …