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A model for the demography of an open population with space-limited recruitment, together with field studies in the rocky intertidal zone of Monterey Bay in California, show that the settlement rate of larvae onto vacant substrate is a parameter that controls the structure of communities containing sessile marine organisms. Models of open populations can be combined, assuming a common larval pool is shared, into a model for a closed regional population. This regional model integrates processes in benthic ecology with coastal oceanographic processes, shows that local coexistence among species competing for space reflects the partitioning of habitats on a regional scale, and is the basis for a theory of life-history evolution pertaining to organisms with pelagic larvae and sessile adults. These new models may be relevant to the dynamics of fishes with demersal adults and pelagic larvae.
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Roughgarden, J., Gaines, S., Iwasa, Y. (1984). Dynamics and Evolution of Marine Populations with Pelagic Larval Dispersal. In: May, R.M. (eds) Exploitation of Marine Communities. Dahlem Workshop Report, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70157-3_5
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