Ecology of Fouling Communities U.S.--U.S.S.R. Cooperative Program Beaufort, North Carolina, U.S.A. 1975.

摘要

This report contains all the English text section included in AD-039 888. The workshop focused on current research on adult and larval ecology of those species comprising the fouling communities of the world's oceans. Emphasis was placed on the interrelationships between the adult and larval stages and how fouling communities are maintained, including the following subtopics: how morphological and physiological characteristics relate to reproductive success of populations and how the environment may modify larval characteristics and behavior; how direction and velocity of currents, coupled with larval behavior, may affect dispersal between geographically separated populations; taxonomic differences between geographically separated populations of adults; how laboratory experiments may determine the genetic basis for differences between and within geographically separated populations; the role of larval dispersal in determining genetic characteristics of populations; and an analysis of niche structure, diversity, and species packing.