Publikationsdatum:
2022-05-25
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Author Posting. © Oceanography Society, 2007. This article is posted here by permission of Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 20, 3 (2007): 22-39.
Beschreibung:
Many marine species have small, pelagic early life stages. For those species,
knowledge of population connectivity requires understanding the origin and
trajectories of dispersing eggs and larvae among subpopulations. Researchers have
used various terms to describe the movement of eggs and larvae in the marine environment,
including larval dispersal, dispersion, drift, export, retention, and larval
transport. Though these terms are intuitive and relevant for understanding the
spatial dynamics of populations, some may be nonoperational (i.e., not measurable),
and the variety of descriptors and approaches used makes studies difficult to
compare. Furthermore, the assumptions that underlie some of these concepts are
rarely identified and tested. Here, we describe two phenomenologically
relevant concepts, larval transport and larval dispersal.
These concepts have corresponding operational definitions,
are relevant to understanding population connectivity,
and have a long history in the literature, although they are
sometimes confused and used interchangeably. After defining
and discussing larval transport and dispersal, we consider
the relative importance of planktonic processes to the overall
understanding and measurement of population
connectivity. The ideas considered in this
contribution are applicable to most benthic
and pelagic species that undergo transformations
among life stages. In this review, however,
we focus on coastal and nearshore benthic
invertebrates and fishes.
Beschreibung:
We thank the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, the
National Science Foundation, and the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
for supporting our work.
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Woods Hole Open Access Server
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