How coral reefs survive as oases of life in low-productivity oceans has puzzled scientists for
centuries. The answer may lie in internal nutrient cycling and/or input from the pelagic zone …

Ecological niches hold critical information concerning the eco-evolutionary dynamics that
govern biodiversity and abundance patterns. Cryptobenthic reef fishes account for …

Life history theory predicts a range of directional generic responses in life history traits with
increasing organism size. Among these are the relationships between size and longevity …

In the present work we describe nine saccular otolith morphometric indices (circularity,
rectangularity, aspect ratio, percentage of the otolith surface occupied by the sulcus …

The majority of coral reef goby species are short-lived, with some highly abundant species
living less than 100 d. To understand the role and consequences of this extreme life history …

Reef-fish diversity models, unlike general diversity-gradient hypotheses, assume food
specialization by reef fishes is too low to influence community structure. This assumption …

The relationship between pelagic larval duration (PLD) and population connectivity in
marine fishes has been controversial, but most studies to date have focused on tropical taxa …

Examination of daily increment rings in the saccular otoliths of 91 specimens of the small
goby, Trimma benjamini, reveal a maximum age of 140 days with an average pelagic larval …

The planktonic duration (PD) was determined in fourteen intertidal rocky fishes from the
south-eastern Pacific Ocean by counting the otolith micro-increments from hatch check to a …

Opportunity and recognition isolation can lead directly to reproductive isolation, the former
via divergence in the location and timing of breeding, and the latter via differential mate …