Migrations and Dispersal of Marine Organisms

Community assembly and historical biogeography in the North Atlantic Ocean: the potential role of human-mediated dispersal vectors.- Dispersal at hydrothermal vents: a summary of recent progress.- Spread of the Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheirsinensis H. Milne Edwards) in Continental Europe: analysis of a historical data set.- Characterising invasion processes with genetic data: an Atlantic clade of Clavelina lepadiformis (Ascidiacea) introduced into Mediterranean harbours.- Shallow-water hydrothermal vents in the Mediterranean sea: stepping stones for Lessepsian migration?.- Local population persistence as a pre-condition for large-scale dispersal of Idotea metallica (Crustacea, Isopoda) on drifting habitat patches.- Rafting of benthic macrofauna: important factors determining the temporal succession of the assemblage on detached macroalgae.- Hitch-hiking on floating marine debris: macrobenthic species in the Western Mediterranean Sea.- Diurnal, horizontal and vertical dispersal of kelp-associated fauna.- Short-term dispersal of kelp fauna to cleared (kelp-harvested) areas.- Regulation of species richness by advection and richness-dependent processes in a coastal fish community.- Secondary settlement of cockles Cerastoderma edule as a function of current velocity and substratum: a flume study with benthic juveniles.- Anchovy egg and larval distribution in relation to biological and physical oceanography in the Strait of Sicily.- Juveniles stick to adults: recruitment of the tube-dwelling polychaete Lanice conchilega (Pallas, 1766).- Settlement of bivalve spat on artificial collectors in Eyjafjordur, North Iceland.- Barnacle larval supply to sheltered rocky shores: a limiting factor?.- Go with the flow: tidal migration in marine animals.- A review of the adaptive significance and ecosystem consequences of zooplankton diel vertical migrations.- Temporal and spatial variability of mobile fauna on a submarine cliff and boulder scree complex: a community in flux.- Diatom migration and sediment armouring — an example from the Tagus Estuary, Portugal.- Life-cycle strategies and seasonal migrations of oceanic copepods in the Irminger Sea.- Seasonality of harpacticoids (Crustacea, Copepoda) in a tidal pool in subarctic southwestern Iceland.- Spatio-temporal distribution of recruits (0 groups) of Merluccius merluccius and Phycis blennoides (Pisces, Gadiformes) in the Strait of Sicily (Central Mediterranean).- Growth aspects of Flustra foliacea (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) in laboratory culture.- Distribution pattern of rays (Pisces, Rajidae) in the Strait of Sicily in relation to fishing pressure.- Distribution of tintinnid species from 42° N to 43° S through the Indian Ocean.