Marine broadcast spawners have two-phase life cycles, with pelagic larvae and benthic
adults. Larval supply and settlement link these two phases and are crucial for the …

Parasitic dinoflagellates in the genus Hematodinium are important parasites of marine
Crustacea. Outbreaks of these parasites have damaged commercial stocks of Norway …

Abstract The Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) has rapidly invaded coastal
environments in the western Mediterranean, but there is no consistent assessment of its …

Habitat fragmentation is increasingly common on land and in the sea, leading to small,
isolated habitat patches in which ecological processes may differ substantially from those in …

The fitness or population growth rate of populations with Allee effects increases with
increasing population size or density up to a certain threshold. Allee effects are possible in …

Settlement and early juvenile stages are considered a bottleneck in the life history of many
epibenthic organisms because of high predation mortality. Nursery habitats may play an …

Habitat fragmentation from natural or anthropogenic causes is a common phenomenon in
shallow water marine habitats such as seagrass beds and oyster reefs throughout the world …

We evaluate the potential competitive and predatory impacts of nonindigenous European
green crab Carcinusmaenas on native Dungeness crab Cancermagister in the northeast …

Newly settled blue crabs Callinectes sapidus generally grow through a series of early
juvenile instars (developmental stages punctuated by ecdysis) within seagrass and other …

Seagrasses form temporally dynamic, fragmented subtidal landscapes in which both large-
and small-scale habitat structure may influence faunal survival and abundance. We …