Larval quality is shaped by matrix effects: Implications for connectivity in a marine metapopulation

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1255-1267

  Shima, Jeffrey S ^a   Swearer, Stephen E ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Demographic connectivity; Environmental marker; Forsterygion lapillum; Larval condition; Larval dispersal; Larval retention; Match mismatch hypothesis; Matrix effects; Metapopulation dynamics; Otolith microchemistry; Selective mortality; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT;

COLONIZATION; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; LARVA; LARVAL TRANSPORT; LIFE HISTORY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; METAPOPULATION; MORTALITY; OTOLITH; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PERCIFORM; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REEF; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; LARVA; TRACE ELEMENTS;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WELLINGTON [NORTH ISLAND]; WELLINGTON HARBOUR;

FORSTERYGION LAPILLUM;

EID: 66149098165     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0029.1     Document Type: Article

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