Connectivity, or the exchange of individuals among marine populations, is a central topic in
marine ecology. For most benthic marine species with complex life cycles, this exchange …

▪ Abstract The majority of marine populations are demographically open; their replenishment
is largely or exclusively dependent on a supply of juveniles from the plankton. In spite of …

All organisms, especially terrestrial plants and other sessile species, interact mainly with
their neighbors, but neighborhoods can differ in composition because of dispersal and …

HABITAT destruction is the major cause of species extinctions1–3. Dominant species often
are considered to be free of this threat because they are abundant in the undisturbed …

We present a model of community regulation that incorporates the effects of abiotic
disturbance, predation, competition, and recruitment density. We assume that mobile …

A regional species pool comprises all species available to colonize a focal site. The roots of
the concept are imbedded in island biogeography theory, supply-side ecology, and early …

Plant species composition, species abundances, and species richness were strongly
recruitment limited in a 4‐yr experiment in which seeds of up to 54 species were added to …

Community ecology: the study of the patterns and processes involving two or more species-
has developed rapidly in the last two decades, driven by new and more sophisticated …

Multiscale patterns of spatial and temporal variation in density and population structure were
used to evaluate the generality of a three—trophic—level cascade among sea otters …

The seashore has long been the subject of fascination and study-the Ancient Greek scholar
Aristotle made observations and wrote about Mediterranean sea urchins. The considerable …