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 …

A substantial shift toward use of marine protected areas (MPAs) for conservation and
fisheries management is currently underway. This shift to explicit spatial management …

Biophysical models are being used increasingly, both as predictive tools of larval dispersal
for a particular system and for general evaluation of the role of different factors in larval …

Populations of many nearshore marine species are connected through the dispersal of their
larvae. In this paper, larval connectivity patterns in the Southern California Bight are …

Ocean surface winds, currents, and waves play a crucial role in exchanges of momentum,
energy, heat, freshwater, gases, and other tracers between the ocean, atmosphere, and ice …

A series of complementary hypotheses have been proposed to explain the recruitment of
marine and temperate pelagic fish larvae originated from pelagic eggs in coastal …

Biophysical models often require shelf-scale domains to map larval dispersal over several
weeks, presenting a computational challenge. This can be overcome by decreasing model …

Submarine hydrocarbon seeps are geologically driven" hotspots" of increased biological
activity on the seabed. As part of the HERMES project, several sites of natural hydrocarbon …

Recent advances in high-resolution ocean circulation models, coupled with a greater
understanding of larval behaviour, have increased the sophistication of individual-based …

A predictive model of the fate of coral reef fish larvae in a reef system is proposed that
combines the oceanographic processes of advection and turbulent diffusion with the …