The growing number of artificial structures in estuarine, coastal and marine environments is
causing “ocean sprawl”. Artificial structures do not only modify marine and coastal …

Aquatic life exists between very small passive floating objects such as spores, eggs or seeds
which are at the mercy of currents through to animals which swim powerfully enough to …

Because planktonic organisms have swimming speeds that are orders of magnitude lower
than horizontal current velocities, it is unclear whether behavior of weak-swimming bivalve …

Connectivity within marine species plays a fundamental role in population dynamics, genetic
diversity, spread of disease, and resilience to human exploitation. However, for shellfish …

Understanding how ocean currents affect larval transport is crucial for understanding
population connectivity in sessile marine invertebrates whose primary dispersal opportunity …

Abstract The European flat oyster, Ostrea edulis, is an important ecosystem engineer that
has been progressively disappearing from European coasts over the last century mainly due …

Populations of most marine organisms are connected by the dispersal of larval stages, with
profound implications for marine conservation [1]. Because of the extreme effort needed to …

Sea lice are a persistent threat in many areas where salmon farming is practised. In common
with the management of disease, infection levels are typically controlled by operating sites …

Although larval dispersal is crucial for the persistence of most marine populations, dispersal
connectivity between sites is rarely considered in designing marine protected area networks …

Intertidal blue mussel beds are important for the functioning and community composition of
coastal ecosystems. Modeling spatial dynamics of intertidal mussel beds is complicated …