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Article: Report summarizes marine biology study findings from A.D. Irving and co-researchers.(Report)
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- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- May 15, 2009
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"Recruitment is essential for the maintenance of populations, but far more is typically known about the more easily-observed adult stages than their smaller, often microscopic early life-history counterparts. This discrepancy can be particularly problematic for populations of foundation species that create biogenic habitat for a multitude of other taxa, but are themselves prime candidates for exploitation, fragmentation, and loss, and therefore become the focus of restoration efforts partly or fully dependent on recruitment," investigators in Australia report.
"The purpose of this study was to improve ecological understanding for early life-history stages of the ...