▪ Abstract Oysters have been introduced worldwide to 73 countries, but the ecological
consequences of the introductions are not fully understood. Economically, introduced …

Shell fragments are important components of many Recent and fossil marine benthic
ecosystems and can provide crucial information on past and present environmental …

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 …

A large‐scale field experiment was conducted to test whether the physical structure of
biogenic reef habitat controls physical conditions (hydrodynamics and hydrographics) with …

The fitness or population growth rate of populations with Allee effects increases with
increasing population size or density up to a certain threshold. Allee effects are possible in …

Claw morphology, and claw-closing forces of four species of intertidal crabs from San Juan
Island, Washington were compared and related these findings were related to prey size …

For organisms with complex life histories, processes occurring during transitions between
stages can strongly affect population dynamics. The major life history transition for many …

Crab fisheries play a crucial role in global fishery economics, but they heavily rely on wild
catches. With the decline and exploratory limits of wild populations, expanding the scale and …

Newly settled blue crabs Callinectes sapidus generally grow through a series of early
juvenile instars (developmental stages punctuated by ecdysis) within seagrass and other …

The functional response of a consumer to a gradient of resource density is a widespread
and consistent framework used to quantify the importance of consumption to population …