Growing up is hard to do: a demographic model of survival and growth of Caribbean octocoral recruits

Background Among species with size structured demography, population structure is determined by size specific survival and growth rates. This interplay is particularly important among recently settled colonial invertebrates for which survival is low and growth is the only way of escaping the high mo...

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Main Authors: Howard R. Lasker, Ángela Martínez-Quintana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2022-11-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/14386.pdf