▪ 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 …

Organisms living in the marine rocky intertidal zone compete for space. This, together with
predation, physical disruption, and differing species tolerances to physiological stress …

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

Most marine populations are thought to be well connected via long-distance dispersal of
larval stages. Eulerian and Lagrangian flow models, coupled with linear mortality estimates …

Bivalves, such as clams and oysters, are species having two-valved shells. In the marine
ecosystem these species play a unique and essential role. This book examines the ecology …

A spatial and mechanistic model is developed for the dynamics of transition oak—northern
hardwoods forests in northeastern North America. The purpose of the model is to extrapolate …

In most applications of delay differential equations in population dynamics, the need of
incorporation of time delays is often the result of the existence of some stage structure. Since …

Ocean acidification, chemical changes to the carbonate system of seawater, is emerging as
a key environmental challenge accompanying global warming and other human‐induced …

Settlement and recruitment of benthic marine invertebrates are complex processes,
determined by the interaction of biotic and abiotic factors which operate at different temporal …

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 …