For sexual selection to act on a given sex, there must exist variation in the reproductive
success of that sex as a result of differential access to mates or fertilisations. The …

Because sperm outnumber eggs, it is often assumed that variation in female reproductive
success has little to do with male or sperm availability. Similarly for males, access to viable …

Echinoderms play a key role in structuring many marine ecosystems and are notorious for
large population density variations in so‐called “outbreak” or “dieoff” events. In a review of …

This chapter addresses the likelihood of fertilization in the sea, the factors that can mediate
fertilization success, and the ecological and evolutionary consequences of variation in …

Successful fertilization in marine organisms that release sperm into seawater is potentially
limited by the rapid dilution of gametes; cases of severe sperm limitation have been …

La combinaison d'expériences de laboratoire et de terrain sur l'ormeau commercialement
exploité Haliotis laevigata a montré que la fécondation peut être un facteur limitant chez …

Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963. Now edited by AJ Southward
(Marine Biological Association, UK), PA Tyler (Southampton Oceanography Association …

Of the marine animals that spend their adult lives inhabiting benthic communities, most have
a planktonic larval phase. In this paper, we derive the relationship between the physical …

This chapter reviews selected aspects of the evolutionary ecology of marine invertebrate
larval types and how they relate to available life-history theory for marine invertebrate …

Mathematical and experimental simulations predict that external fertilization is unsuccessful
in habitats characterized by high water motion. A key assumption of such predictions is that …