Marine broadcast spawners have two-phase life cycles, with pelagic larvae and benthic
adults. Larval supply and settlement link these two phases and are crucial for the …

Newly settled invertebrates usually are subject to high rates of mortality (Type 111
survivorship). Therefore, knowledge of early post-settlement events is critical in determ …

Efforts to understand the population dynamics of marine species with planktonic larvae have
been stymied by the fact that the larvae recruiting to a location have little chance of …

Understanding the factors that determine community structure remains one of the most
important issues in ecology. In this paper, we examine the role of flow velocities in governing …

The majority of benthic organisms inhabiting the nearshore, roughly the zone from 0 to 30 m
water depth, have planktonic larvae that inhabit the pelagic environment, where larvae …

Temperature, salinity, flow speeds, and pldnklvn concentrations can be highly variable on
the slope of Conch Reef, Florida Keys (USA), as warm surface water is mixed with cool …

The leaf coral Agaricia humilis occurs mainly on the undersides of surfaces in shallow water,
a distribution different from the vast majority of corals at our study site in Bonaire …

Variation in the level of settlement and recruitment in the intertidal barnacle Semibalanus
balanoides was studied using a hierarchical sampling programme. The effect of three spatial …

In all marine benthic environments, organism replacement depends on recruitment
limitation, ie the impact of both pre-and post-settlement events on the success of recruitment …

In censuses conducted between 1989 and 1993 the cause of consistent local differences in
benthic recruitment of the American lobster (Homarus americanus Milne-Edwards) to coastal …