Settlement and recruitment of echinoderms in kelp beds and barrens.

• Main Author: Balch, Toby.
• Other Authors: Ph.D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Dalhousie University 2014
• Subjects: Biology; Ecology; Oceanography; Canada; Parma; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55707

This thesis examines temporal and spatial variability in settlement and recruitment of echinoderms in rocky subtidal habitats. A review of the literature revealed that the processes which regulate the transitions from early life stages through to adulthood, and thereby determine the distribution and...