Vegetated marine and freshwater habitats are being increasingly lost around the world.
Habitat restoration is a critical step for conserving these valuable habitats, but new …

Newly settled invertebrates usually are subject to high rates of mortality (Type 111
survivorship). Therefore, knowledge of early post-settlement events is critical in determ …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the geographical and local distribution of scallop
populations, concentrating on the species of commercial importance. It also discusses the …

Many bivalve mollusks have one or more separate post-metamorphic stages which are
functionally distinct from the late juvenile or the adult. The benthic plantigrade and the …

Along the Atlantic coast of the continental United States, shellfish habitats occur in estuaries,
near-shore coastal waters, and offshore on the continental shelf (Shumway and Kraeuter …

Human damage to biogenic substrata such as maerl has been receiving increasing attention
recently. Maerl forms highly biodiverse and heterogeneous habitats composed of loose …

In Barkley Sound, British Columbia, Canada, newly hatched Nucella emarginata, a direct
developing prosobranch gastropod, are almost exclusively located within 3 structurally …

In marine systems, seagrass meadows, which serve as essential nursery and adult habitat
for numerous species, experience fragmentation through both human activity and …

Bay scallop Argopecten irradians irradians populations and fisheries in the Peconic Bays of
eastern Long Island, New York, USA, were decimated by brown tide algal blooms between …

Edge effects are a dominant subject in landscape ecology literature, yet they are highly
variable and poorly understood. Often, the literature suggests simple models for edge effects …