Many aquatic crustaceans pass through a complex life cycle comprising a benthic juvenile-
adult and a pelagic larval phase. In the study of aquatic ecology, meroplanktonic larvae are …

Regional oceanographic processes are emerging as strong influences on growth and
recruitment of intertidal species, with important consequences for populations. Yet local …

Isolated populations or those at the edge of their distribution are usually more sensitive to
changes in the environment, such as climate change. For the barnacle Semibalanus …

One of the central issues in ecology is the identification of processes affecting the population
structure and dynamics of species with complex life cycles. In such species, variation in both …

Range shifts due to annual variation in temperature are more tractable than range shifts
linked to decadal to century long temperature changes due to climate change, providing …

We investigated the regional variation in barnacle (Semibalanus balanoides) recruit and
adult abundance on the NW Atlantic coast. At the end of the recruitment season (June–July) …

The performance of a species can be significantly altered by subtle changes in the physical
environmental. The intertidal barnacle Balanus glandula is predominantly an open coast …

Marine benthic populations are dependent on early life-history stages surviving multiple
population bottlenecks. Failure at one or several of these bottlenecks can alter species' …

Markov models are widely used to describe the dynamics of communities of sessile
organisms, because they are easily fitted to field data and provide a rich set of analytical …

At the spatial scale relevant to many field studies and management policies, populations
may experience more external recruitment than internal recruitment. These sources of …