Recruitment limitation, population regulation, and larval connectivity in reef fish metapopulations

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1092-1104

  Armsworth, Paul R ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity patterns; Density dependence; Larval dispersal; Marine metapopulations; Open vs. closed populations; Population regulation; Recruitment limitation; Recruitment vs. post recruitment processes; Reef fishes; Self recruitment; Source sink dynamics

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; FISH; LARVA; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION REGULATION; RECRUITMENT; REEF;

PISCES;

EID: 0011481494     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1092:RLPRAL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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