Open and closed seascapes: Where does habitat patchiness create populations with high fractions of self-recruitment?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1257-1267

  Pinsky, Malin L ^a   Palumbi, Stephen R ^b   Andréfouët, Serge ^c   Purkis, Sam J ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^d NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Coral reef seascapes; Dispersal; Landscape ecology; Marine protected areas; Metapopulation; Population openness; Reef fishes

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; CORAL REEF; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MARINE PARK; PATCHINESS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORAL REEF; DEMOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SEA;

ANIMALS; CORAL REEFS; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 84861941847     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1240.1     Document Type: Article

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