▪ Abstract The majority of marine populations are demographically open; their replenishment
is largely or exclusively dependent on a supply of juveniles from the plankton. In spite of …

THERE IS GROWING consensus that life within the world's ocean is under considerable and
increasing stress from human activities (Hutchings, 2000; Jackson et al., 2001). This …

We present a model of community regulation that incorporates the effects of abiotic
disturbance, predation, competition, and recruitment density. We assume that mobile …

Ecology is characterized by a rapidly growing complexity and diversity of facts, aspects,
examples, and observations. What is badly needed is the development of common patterns …

Amidst the growing volume of published research on artificial reefs, one of the key questions
concerns their potential for enhancing production over and above merely serving to attract …

By definition, a population is regulated if it persists for many generations with fluctuations
bounded above zero with high probability. Regulation thus requires density‐dependent …

The plankton larval duration for 100 species of Pacific and Atlantic damselfishes was
estimated from daily growth increments on the otolith of juvenile fish collected at various …

A long-term, large-scale empirical test of the recruitment limitation hypothesis was done by
sampling fish populations from the southern Great Barrier Reef after having monitored their …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been proposed as one way to reduce the problems of
overfishing and to respond to uncertainty in fisheries management. Many fisheries, including …

Coral reef fishes occupy habitats that are patchy and subject to frequent natural
disturbances. Although different types of disturbance are likely to generate different …