The seashore has long been the subject of fascination and study-the Ancient Greek scholar
Aristotle made observations and wrote about Mediterranean sea urchins. The considerable …

Most intertidal and benthic subtidal invertebrates and fish produce planktonic larvae. This
chapter presents more or less accepted or documented mechanisms of larval dispersal and …

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 …

1. Extensive changes in marine communities in southwest Britain and the western English
Channel have been recorded during the past 70 years. 2. 2. Over the same period there was …

Rocky shores occur at the interface of the land and sea. Typically they are open ecosystems,
with steep environmental gradients. Their accessibility to man has rendered them …

This paper reviews progress in the COST 647 rocky littoral programme involving three
patellids, two trochids and two cirripedes on European Atlantic coasts. Northern …

We review how intertidal biodiversity is responding to globally driven climate change,
focusing on long-term data from rocky shores in the British Isles. Physical evidence of …

MARINE species commonly have broadly dispersing juveniles called larvae. Their return to
the adult populations is highly variable'-3, often generating large fluctuations in population …

Marine heatwaves are global phenomena that can have major impacts on the structure and
function of coastal ecosystems. By mid-2014, the Pacific Marine Heatwave (PMH) was …

Dispersal of intertidal mussel propagules was examined by sampling larvae (0.2 to 0.8 mm)
of Perna perna in shallow (10 to 20 m) inshore waters on the south coast of South Africa …