Use of larval supply in benthic ecology: testing correlations between larval supply and larval settlement

Abstract

Based on plankton and settlement data collected over an entire settlement period of the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides, explores the variability in the strength of the relationships between the abundance of newly settled individuals sampled daily at 3 shore levels and the daily larval abundance at 3 different depths over a 10 d study period. The best correlation was obtained between the number of larvae collected near the bottom and the number of spat sampled in the low intertidal. -from Authors