Variation in adhesion strength of Balanus eburneus, crassostrea virginica and hydroides dianthus to fouling-release coatings Christopher J. Kavanagh a; Michael P. Schultz b; Geoffrey W. Swain a; Judith Stein c; Kathryn Truby c;Christina Darkangelo Wood c a Department of Oceanography and Ocean Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA b Ocean Engineering Program, United St...

Many marine invertebrates with complex life cycles produce planktonic larvae that experience environmental conditions different from those encountered by adults. Factors such as temperature and food, known to impact the larval period, can also affect larval size and consequently the size of newly settled juveniles. After documenting natural variation in the size of cyprids (the final larval sta...

Field studies demonstrate that the population structure of the barnacle Balanus glandula differs between locations of high and low larval settlement rate. These observations, together with results from a model for the demography of an open, space-limited population, suggest that the settlement rate may be a more important determinant of rocky intertidal community structure than is presently rea...

The strength of top-down control by consumers is predicted to decrease with latitude, but most data confirming this assumption come from latitudes <60°, while empirical studies of predation in sub-arctic and arctic marine habitats are few. A barnacle Balanus crenatus is a native foundation species in the shallow subtidal of the White Sea (65° N), hosting a diverse (250+ species) assemblage of m...