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Spatiotemporal Variation In Postlarval Recruitment Of The Caribbean Spiny Lobster In The Central Bahamas: Lunar And Seasonal Periodicity, Spatial Coherence, And Wind Forcing, Db Eggleston, Rom Lipcius, Ls Marshall, Sg Ratchford
Spatiotemporal Variation In Postlarval Recruitment Of The Caribbean Spiny Lobster In The Central Bahamas: Lunar And Seasonal Periodicity, Spatial Coherence, And Wind Forcing, Db Eggleston, Rom Lipcius, Ls Marshall, Sg Ratchford
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A large-scale recruitment study of the Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus in the central Bahamas identified (1) strong spatial coherence in settlement to inshore nursery habitats, (2) temporal variability due in part to stochastic wind forcing, and (3) lunar and seasonal periodicity in settlement. First, we quantified lunar variation in settlement on standardized artificial substrates to determine whether or not intra- and inter-annual variability in recruitment could be adequately described by measuring influx of postlarvae during the first quarter of each new moon, as suggested by previous studies. Next, we compared settlement data obtained from artificial surface substrates to concentrations …