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Prolonged settlement and prediction of recruitment in two sympatric intertidal Chthamalus species from south-west Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Anne-Marie Power
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, University College Cork, Lee Maltings, Prospect Row, Cork City, Ireland
Jane Delany
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, University College Cork, Lee Maltings, Prospect Row, Cork City, Ireland
Alan A. Myers
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, University College Cork, Lee Maltings, Prospect Row, Cork City, Ireland
Ruth M. O'Riordan
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, University College Cork, Lee Maltings, Prospect Row, Cork City, Ireland
David McGrath
Affiliation:
Department of Life Sciences, Galway—Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland
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Abstract

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Attached cypris larvae and less than one month old metamorphs of Chthamalus stellatus and C. montagui (Crustacea: Cirripedia) were sampled from random quadrats on two shores in County Cork, Ireland, from July 1996 to June 1997. Cyprids of C. stellatus were much more abundant than those of C. montagui, but the relative abundance of metamorphs of the two species did not differ significantly. Cyprid abundance predicted metamorph recruitment intensity during peak settlement in C. stellatus but not in C. montagui.

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© 1999 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom