Metacommunity organisation, spatial extent and dispersal in aquatic systems: patterns, processes and prospects

J Heino, AS Melo, T Siqueira, J Soininen… - Freshwater …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Metacommunity ecology addresses the situation where sets of local communities are
connected by the dispersal of a number of potentially interacting species. Aquatic systems …

An examination of spatial variability in the timing and magnitude of Holocene relative sea-level changes in the New Zealand archipelago

AJH Clement, PL Whitehouse, CR Sloss - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) changes have been reconstructed for four regions within
the New Zealand archipelago: the northern North Island (including Northland, Auckland, and …

Large-scale spatial patterns in estuaries: estuarine macrobenthic communities in the Schelde estuary, NW Europe

T Ysebaert, PMJ Herman, P Meire… - Estuarine, coastal and …, 2003 - Elsevier
Few macrobenthic studies have dealt simultaneously with the two major gradients in
estuarine benthic habitats: the salinity gradient along the estuary (longitudinal) and the …

[图书][B] Enhancing or restoring the productivity of natural populations of shellfish and other marine invertebrate resources

JF Caddy, O Defeo - 2003 - books.google.com
A broad review is provided of factors relevant to enhancing populations of invertebrate
resources and methods promoting their recovery by natural recruitment, restocking or habitat …

Smothering of estuarine sandflats by terrigenous clay: the role of wind-wave disturbance and bioturbation in site-dependent macrofaunal recovery

A Norkko, SF Thrush, JE Hewitt, VJ Cummings… - Marine Ecology …, 2002 - int-res.com
Sediment run-off from land has been recognised as a threat to the biodiversity of shallow
estuarine and coastal areas. Extreme rainfall events can cause flooding and landslides …

Hydrodynamics of larval settlement: the influence of turbulent stress events at potential recruitment sites

JP Crimaldi, JK Thompson, JH Rosman… - Limnology and …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We describe a laboratory investigation into the effect of turbulent hydrodynamic stresses on
clam larvae in the settlement phase of the recruitment process. A two‐component laser …

Carbonate mineral saturation state as the recruitment cue for settling bivalves in marine muds

MA Green, GG Waldbusser, L Hubazc, E Cathcart… - Estuaries and …, 2013 - Springer
After a pelagic larval phase, infaunal bivalves undergo metamorphosis and transition to the
underlying sediments to begin the benthic stage of their life history, where they explore and …

Terrestrially derived sediment: response of marine macrobenthic communities to thin terrigenous deposits

AM Lohrer, SF Thrush, JE Hewitt… - Marine Ecology …, 2004 - int-res.com
Coastal marine habitats adjacent to catchments with encroaching human development are
likely to experience increased sediment loadings in ensuing decades. Thus, sedimentary …

Pre-and post-settlement events in benthic community dynamics

S Fraschetti, A Giangrande, A Terlizzi, F Boero - Oceanologica Acta, 2002 - Elsevier
In all marine benthic environments, organism replacement depends on recruitment
limitation, ie the impact of both pre-and post-settlement events on the success of recruitment …

Rapid reworking of subtidal sediments by burrowing spatangoid urchins

AM Lohrer, SF Thrush, L Hunt, N Hancock… - Journal of Experimental …, 2005 - Elsevier
The mixing and displacement of sediment by benthic macrofauna (bioturbation) has major
biogeochemical implications, and can control rates of organic matter degradation and …