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Reproductive and larval ecology of marine bottom invertebrates.
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In analysing the ecological conditions of an animal population, the most sensitive stages within the life cycle of the animal are focused upon, that is, the period of breeding and larval development.Abstract:
1. In analysing the ecological conditions of an animal population we have above all to focus our attention upon the most sensitive stages within the life cycle of the animal, that is, the period of breeding and larval development.read more
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Recruitment dynamics in complex life cycles
TL;DR: These findings illustrate how processes in different ecological habitats are coupled and models combining larval circulation with adult interactions can potentially forecast population fluctuations.
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Ecology of Kelp Communities
TL;DR: The giant kelp, Macrocystispyrifera, forms dense forests in many parts of the world including areas of the northeast Pacific, the southern shores of South America, many Southern Ocean islands, and isolated areas of South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
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The consequences of variation in initial settlement vs. post-settlement mortality in rocky intertidal communities
TL;DR: Site consistency argues that either settlement or early post-settlement mortality is determined by specific local physical conditions at a site, such as coastal morphology, internal waves, shore waves, currents, or by consistent abundances of natural enemies.
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Self-recruitment in a coral reef fish population
TL;DR: It is shown for the first time that juveniles from a coral reef fish population can return to their natal reef and challenge the assumption that long-distance dispersal is the norm for reef fish populations.
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Reproductive strategies of coastal marine fishes in the tropics
TL;DR: It is concluded that temperate zone models of reproductive strategy are inapplicable to many fishes of the coastal tropics and offshore larval dispersal does not seem to be an adaptation for dispersal of the species, but rather an evolutionary response to intense predation pressure in the adult habitats.
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Sea-Temperature, Breeding and Distribution in Marine Animals
TL;DR: The extrusion of ripe ova, or the fertilisability of eggs with subsequent development, is taken as the criterion of breeding in marine animals, and a brief survey has been attempted here.
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Studies of the Development and Larval Forms of Echinoderms
TL;DR: It is almost as though there were an alternation of generations, as though the larva bore the young echinoderm as a mother bears a child; and Dr. Mortensen suggests that an ophiurid larva, which, after dropping the young brittle-star, proceeds to reconstitute its own body, and continues life as an independent individual.
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Relations between the Moon and Periodicity in the Breeding of Marine Animals
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On the Artificial Culture of Marine Plankton Organisms
E. J. Allen,E. W. Nelson +1 more
TL;DR: The observations to be recorded in this Paper were commenced in March, 1905, in an attempt to find a general method for rearing marine larval forms from artificially fertilized eggs under laboratory conditions.