T. P. HUGHES [1]
N.A. MOLTSCHANIWSKYJ [2]
J. E. TANNER [3]
Key words: coral reefs; dispersal; fecundity; gene flow; Great Barrier Reef, Australia; mass spawning; population dynamics; recruitment limitation; spatial scale; stock size; supply-side ecology.
Abstract. "Supply-side" ecology recognizes the potential role that recruitment plays in the local population dynamics of open systems. Apart from the applied fisheries literature, the converse link between adults and the production of cohorts of recruits has received much less attention. We used a hierarchical sampling design to investigate the relationships between adult abundance, fecundity, and rates of ...