... Box 5389, Charleston, Oregon 97420, USA *Email: ashanks@darkwing.uoregon.edu ABSTRACT: Larval supply affects the structure of marine communities. Cross-shelf transport of larvae by upwelling and downwelling may cause variation in larval supply. We tested the hypothesis that slow-swimming bivalve larvae are swept offshore during upwelling and shoreward during downwelling. We sampled a transect at Duck, North Carolina during a period when currents shifted ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
2005 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series