Demography of the demosponge Amphimedon compressa: Evaluation of the importance of sexual versus asexual recruitment to its population dynamics

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 407, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 355-362

  Mercado Molina, Alex E ^a,b,c   Sabat, Alberto M ^b   Yoshioka, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

^c Sociedad Ambiente Marino   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Asexual fragmentation; Matrix population models; Population dynamics; Sexual recruitment; Sponge demography

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COASTAL ZONE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRAGMENTATION; GROWTH; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REEF; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPONGE; SURVIVAL;

PUERTO RICO;

AMPHIMEDON COMPRESSA;

EID: 80052441169     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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