Alan L. Shanks

TL;DR: This study compiled available information on the dispersal distance of the propagules of benthic marine organisms and used this information in the development of criteria for the design of marine reserves, suggesting that reserves be designed large enough to contain the short-distance dispersing propagules and be spaced far enough apart that long-distance dispersed propagules released from one reserve can settle in adjacent reserves.

TL;DR: I present dispersal distances for 44 species with data on propagule duration (PD) for 40 of these, providing information on 67 species, and concludes that Larval behavior and species’ life-history traits can play a critical role in determining dispersal distance.

TL;DR: It is argued that some larvae may use a hierarchy of sensory cues to find suitable settlement sites and that some of the same types of stimuli may be used at more than one spatial scale (as demonstrated for adult salmonid fishes).

TL;DR: It is concluded that physical factors that result in a departure from unidirectional, depth-uniform water flow provide the opportunity for retention of larvae, and therefore of self-recruitment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate direct and indirect evidence to predict the relationship between these biophysical variables and the degree of self-recruitment in benthic marine organisms.