Variation in the dispersal potential of non-feeding invertebrate larvae: The desperate larva hypothesis and larval size

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 255, Issue , 2003, Pages 145-153

  Marshall, Dustin J ^a   Keough, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dispersal potential; Maternal effects; Offspring size

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DISPERSAL; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; MATERNAL EFFECT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; BRYOZOA; BUGULA; BUGULA NERITINA; DIPLOSOMA LISTERIANUM; INVERTEBRATA; NERITINA; WATERSIPORA SUBTORQUATA;

EID: 0038792241     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps255145     Document Type: Article

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