Quantifying dispersal variability among nearshore marine populations

KA Catalano, AG Dedrick, MR Stuart… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersal drives diverse processes from population persistence to community dynamics.
However, the amount of temporal variation in dispersal and its consequences for …

[HTML][HTML] Coral larval recruitment in north-western Australia predicted by regional and local conditions

DP Thomson, RC Babcock, RD Evans, M Feng… - Marine Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding ecological processes that shape contemporary and future communities
facilitates knowledge-based environmental management. In marine ecosystems, one of the …

The Importance of Size and Location Within Gregarious Populations of Ernietta plateauensis

BM Gibson, SAF Darroch, KM Maloney… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ernietta plateauensis is a semi-infaunal macroscopic eukaryote of unknown affinities
common in latest Ediacaran (∼ 548–539 Ma) shallow marine settings in Namibia. The …

Marine fouling characteristics of biocomposites in a coral reef ecosystem

M Contardi, S Montano, P Galli… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems in the world. The diversity of life found
in the habitats created by corals is so large that the reefs are known as the “rainforests of the …

Early life-history dynamics of Caribbean octocorals: the critical role of larval supply and partial mortality

A Martinez-Quintana, HR Lasker - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recruitment is a key demographic process for maintenance of local populations and
recovery following disturbance. For marine invertebrates, distribution and abundances of …

Algal turf negatively affects recruitment of a Caribbean octocoral

CD Wells, A Martinez-Quintana, KJ Tonra, HR Lasker - Coral Reefs, 2021 - Springer
Algal cover has increased and scleractinian coral cover has steadily declined over the past
40 years on Caribbean coral reefs, while octocoral abundance has increased at sites where …

Species level identification of Antillogorgia spp. recruits identifies multiple pathways of octocoral success on Caribbean reefs

HR Lasker, I Porto-Hannes - Coral Reefs, 2021 - Springer
Successful recruitment is critical to the maintenance and resilience of populations and may
be at the core of the transition from scleractinian-to octocoral-dominated faunas on some …

[PDF][PDF] Coral recruitment rate and fish aggregation in Pandong Bato Puente, Carmen, Cebu, Philippines

JE Caballero, RC Rosales, AS Ilano, LB Colita… - J. Wetl …, 2021 - muzeulbrailei.ro
This study has been to determine the coral recruitment rate and fish aggregation in Pandong
Bato Marine Sanctuary, Puente Carmen, Cebu, Philippines. Settlement plates made of clay …

Bioblitz assessment of rocky intertidal biodiversity within the Boston Harbor Islands national recreation area

CM Matassa, CB Hitchcock - Northeastern Naturalist, 2021 - BioOne
Bioblitzes are rapid assessments of local biodiversity that provide opportunities for science,
outreach, and management. Here, we present results from a bioblitz motivated by the …

Modeling Oyster Reef Reproductive Sustainability: Analyzing Gamete Viability, Hydrodynamics, and Reef Structure to Facilitate Restoration of $\textit {Crassostrea …

J Weissberg, V Pagano - arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.04908, 2021 - arxiv.org
The eastern oyster is a keystone species and ecosystem engineer. However, restoration
efforts of wild oysters are often unsuccessful, in that they do not produce a robust population …