Testing the intermittent upwelling hypothesis: comment

The impact of recruitment of marine organisms on populations and communities has bedeviled fisheries scientists and ecologists for decades. The problem is that most marine species have complex life cycles, with adults living in a separate habitat (e.g., benthic) from that of juveniles (e.g., pelagic). Pineda (1994, 2000) modeled the complexity of the problem by depicting larval movement shoreward as passing through a series of filters, each depleting larval density and yielding a small fraction of settlers and recruits. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.