Marine animals typically release tremendous numbers of larvae or gametes into the
surrounding water column. Conventional wisdom purports that few larvae survive long …

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 …

Sister species separated by the Isthmus of Panama have been widely used to estimate rates
of molecular evolution. These estimates are based on the assumption that geographic …

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 …

Initial settlement of planktonic propagules may affect the structure of intertidal communities
in some circumstances but not in others. Of the very few studies of initial settlement, most …

It is widely believed that gene flow connected many shallow water populations of the
Caribbean and eastern Pacific until the Panama seaway closed 3.0 to 3.5 million years ago …

“Supply‐side” ecology recognizes the potential role that recruitment plays in the local
population dynamics of open systems. Apart from the applied fisheries literature, the …

Settlement, early survivorship and growth of two species of reef-building corals were studied
in order to assess the importance of these processes in determining the distribution of adult …

Settlement rates of the high intertidal barnacle, Balanus glandula, were monitored at three
sites in the rocky intertidal zone in Central California simultaneously with measurements of …