Recruitment, Colonization and Physical-Chemical Forcing in Marine Biological Systems

Larval supply and recruitment of benthic invertebrates: do larvae always disperse as much as we believe?.- Recruitment in Macoma balthica after mild and cold winters and its possible control by egg production and shrimp predation.- The spreading potential of polychaete larvae does not predict adult distributions; consequences for conditions of recruitment.- Regrowth of kelp and colonization of epiphyte and fauna community after kelp trawling at the coast of Norway.- Pentapora fascialis (Pallas) [Cheilostomata: Ascophora] colonization of one sublittoral rocky site after sea-storm in the northwestern Mediterranean.- The alternating recruitment pattern in Ensis minor, an exploited bivalve in the Gulf of Trieste, Italy.- Recolonization patterns of meiobenthic communities in brackish vegetated and unvegetated habitats after induced hypoxia/anoxia.- Active habitat selection of megalopae and juvenile shore crabs Carcinus maenas: a laboratory study in an annular flume.- Do barnacle larvae respond to multiple settlement cues over a range of spatial scales?.- Local control of recruitment in an epifaunal community and the consequences to colonization processes.- Recolonization dynamics in areas disturbed by bottom fishing gears.- Vertical migration and selective tidal stream transport in the megalopa of the crab Carcinus maenas.- Temporal fluctuation in the abundance of a semelid bivalve, Theora fragilis (A. Adams) in Maizuru Bay, Sea of Japan.- Do hydrodynamic factors affect the recruitment of marine invertebrates in a macrotidal area?.- Effects of green algal mats on infaunal colonization of a New England mud flat — long-lasting but highly localized effects.- Hydrodynamic consequences of barnacle colonization.- The influence of epilithic microbial films on the settlement ofSemibalanus balanoides cyprids — a comparison between laboratory and field experiments.- Scale-dependent benthic recolonization dynamics: life stage-based dispersal and demographic consequences.- Recolonization and succession in soft-sediment infaunal communities: the spatial scale of controlling factors.- Physiological flexibility: a necessity for life in anoxic and sulphidic habitats.- Manganese in the haemolymph and tissues of the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (L.), along the Swedish west coast, 1993–1995.- Do physical and chemical factors structure the macrobenthic community at a continental slope in the NE Atlantic?.- Interactions between two deposit-feeding echinoderms: the spatangoid Brissopsis lyrifera (Forbes) and the ophiuroid Amphiura chiajei (Forbes).- Resource limitation in soft sediments — differential effects of food and space in the association between the brittle-star Amphiura filiformis and the bivalve Mysella bidendata?.- Macrobenthic metabolism as carbon and nitrogen fluxes in a coastal area exposed to strong tidal currents (Dover Strait, eastern English Channel).- Long-term changes in the diversity and faunal structure of benthic communities in the northern North Sea: natural variability or induced instability?.- Vertical migratory behaviour of the euphausiid, Meganyctiphanes norvegica, and its dispersion in the Kattegat Channel.- Vertical distribution, grazing and egg production of calanoid copepods during winter—spring in Gullmarsfjorden.- An in situ experiment to investigate the modification of particulate matter and urea above a benthic sandy silt community in the Baltic Sea.- Small-scale plankton patchiness in the Black Sea euphotic layer.- Pelagic—benthic coupling in the Bay of Fundy.