Estimating dispersal potential for marine larvae: Dynamic models applied to scleractinian corals

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3572-3583

  Connolly, Sean R ^a   Baird, Andrew H ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Coral reefs; Dispersal model; Larval settlement; Larval survival

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL REEF; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LARVA; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAPOPULATION; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DEMOGRAPHY; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 78650386987     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0143.1     Document Type: Article

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