Larval development in brachyuran crabs includes a number of zoeal stages followed by a
single megalopal stage. Zoeae and megalopae are relatively strong swimmers, and …

Abstract Green crabs (Carcinus, Portunidae) include two species native to Europe—
Carcinus aestuarii (Mediterranean species) and Carcinus maenas (Atlantic species). These …

The Canary Current upwelling ecosystem (CanC) constitutes one of the four main eastern
boundary upwelling ecosystems (EBUEs) of the world, thus hosting high productivity and …

Larvae are considered to be highly susceptible to offshore transport, thereby limiting
recruitment in productive upwelling regions, except in the recirculation features that form in …

Research into marine population connectivity (MPC)—the rate of transfer of organisms
between locations—is important for our understanding of how marine systems operate as …

Under climate change, increased temperatures combined with food limitation may be critical
for species with complex life cycles, if high growth rates characterize the larval development …

Comparative multispecies studies allow contrasting the effect of past and present
oceanographic processes on phylogeographic patterns. In the present study, a fragment of …

The high mortality of cephalopod early stages is the main bottleneck to grow them from
paralarvae to adults in culture conditions, probably because the inadequacy of the diet that …

The present study analyses the distribution of cephalopod paralarvae off the Portuguese
coast. The effects of temporal and physical variables on Loligo vulgaris, Octopus vulgaris …

Highly advective upwelling systems along the western margins of continents are widely
believed to transport larvae far offshore in surface currents resulting in larval wastage …