Skip Navigation

American Zoologist 1991 31(6):797-807; doi:10.1093/icb/31.6.797
© 1991 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Request Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by WOODIN, S. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Recruitment of Infauna: Positive or Negative Cues?1

SARAH ANN WOODIN
Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Sciences Program, University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208

The current paradigm for recruitment invokes passive transport of the larva in the water column followed by larval choice of habitat after deposition of the larva on or near the bottom. Larval choice is typically considered to be based on positive cues. I argue herein that the evidence for emphasizing rejection of substrata by negative cues is at least as compelling as that for acceptance by positive cues. Data from the literature on costs of rejection of settlement sites, types of emigration by larvae and/or juveniles, and criteria by which infaunal larvae and/or juveniles reject habitats are used to support this thes.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.