Causes of decoupling between larval supply and settlement and consequences for understanding recruitment and population connectivity

J Pineda, F Porri, V Starczak, J Blythe - Journal of Experimental Marine …, 2010 - Elsevier
Marine broadcast spawners have two-phase life cycles, with pelagic larvae and benthic
adults. Larval supply and settlement link these two phases and are crucial for the …

[BOOK][B] Allee effects in ecology and conservation

F Courchamp, L Berec, J Gascoigne - 2008 - books.google.com
Allee effects are (broadly) defined as a decline in individual fitness at low population size or
density. They can result in critical population thresholds below which populations crash to …

Important but ignored: Research progress on crab foraging behaviour and its implications for aquaculture

D Liu, B Zhu, X Liu, F Wang - Reviews in Aquaculture, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunistic omnivory impairs the use of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus as a trace metal biomonitor in invaded Mediterranean coastal waters

R De Giorgi, R Bardelli, L Cilenti, S Falco… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
The contribution of non-indigenous species to the transfer of contaminants in invaded food
webs represents an active research area. Here we measured trace metals and CN stable …

Allee effects driven by predation

JC Gascoigne, RN Lipcius - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 In a population with Allee effects a positive relationship exists between fitness
and population size or density. Allee effects may result in extinction thresholds and are …

Allee effects in marine systems

J Gascoigne, RN Lipcius - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2004 - int-res.com
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 …

The elephant in the room: Introduced species also profit from refuge creation by artificial fish habitats

RPM Gauff, E Joubert, A Curd, A Carlier… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasingly, ecological rehabilitation is envisioned to mitigate and revert impacts of ocean
sprawl on coastal marine biodiversity. While in the past studies have demonstrated the …

A conceptual framework for understanding thermal constraints on ectotherm activity with implications for predicting responses to global change

AR Gunderson, M Leal - Ecology letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Activity budgets influence the expression of life history traits as well as population dynamics.
For ectotherms, a major constraint on activity is environmental temperature. Nonetheless, we …

[PDF][PDF] Ecology of juvenile and adult blue crabs

AH Hines - Biology of the blue crab, 2007 - repository.si.edu
Newly settled blue crabs Callinectes sapidus generally grow through a series of early
juvenile instars (developmental stages punctuated by ecdysis) within seagrass and other …

Predator type influences the frequency of functional responses to prey in marine habitats

RP Dunn, KA Hovel - Biology letters, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …