Enhancement of Mercenaria mercenaria densities in seagrass beds: Is pattern fixed during settlement season or altered by subsequent differential survival?1
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Limnology and Oceanography
- Vol. 31 (1) , 200-205
- https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.1986.31.1.0200
Abstract
The hypothesis that the passive hydrodynamic influence of projecting seagrasses on larval and postlarval settlement is sufficient to explain the higher Mercenaria mercenaria densities inside a seagrass habitat was tested by comparing the between‐habitat ratio of 0‐year‐class recruits after each of two settlement seasons to the between‐habitat ratio of densities of all older age classes. Differential survival after settlement must be invoked to explain at least half of the seagrass enhancement in Mercenaria population density.Keywords
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