Coral reef fish larvae: Patch size estimation and mixing in the plankton1

• DOI: 10.4319/lo.1984.29.5.1116
• Publication Date: 2010-04-07T05:24:49Z
• Authors: Benjamin C. Victor
• Keywords: Ichthyoplankton

The daily pattern of settlement larvae the bluehead wrasse, Thalassoma bifasciatum, onto a number coral reefs was reconstructed with otolith increment aging technique. Larvae settled simultaneously within an area about 1,000 km 2 . planktonic patch size wrasse is inferred to be at least 46 wide. settling reef same time were not age, indicating that dispersal results in mixing cohorts larvae.