Animals living in the Southern Ocean have evolved in a singular environment. It shares
many of its attributes with the high Arctic, namely low, stable temperatures, the pervading …

Large population fluctuations of jellyfish occur over a variety of temporal scales, from weekly
to seasonal, inter-annual and even decadal, with some regions of the world reported to be …

Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

There is increasing concern about the impacts of microplastics (< 1 mm) on marine biota.
Microplastics may be mistaken for food items and ingested by a wide variety of organisms …

Full‐subsets information theoretic approaches are becoming an increasingly popular tool for
exploring predictive power and variable importance where a wide range of candidate …

The connectivity of marine populations is often surprisingly lower than predicted by the
dispersal capabilities of propagules alone. Estimates of connectivity, moreover, do not …

When provisioning offspring, mothers balance the benefits of producing a few large, fitter
offspring with the costs of decreased fecundity. The optimal balance between offspring size …

Naturalists and scientists have been captivated by the diversity of marine larval forms since
they were discovered following the advent of the microscope. Because they often bear little …

Bacterial biofilms are increasingly seen as important for the successful settlement of marine
invertebrate larvae. Here we tested the effects of biofilms on settlement of the sea urchin …

The ability of miniscule larvae to control their fate and replenish populations in dynamic
marine environments has been a long‐running topic of debate of central importance for …