. The Biological bulletin. Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology. 30 M. G. HADFIELD AND M. A. R. KOEHL. Figure 1. Planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) image of rhodamine dye leaching from the surface of a reef of cleaned skeletons of Ponies compressa exposed to waves in a flume (single frame of a video made by M. A. Reidenbach and J. R. Koseff, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Stanford University). The brightness of the dye in the water is proportional to concentration (Crimaldi and Koseff, 2001). The arrow indicates the position of the modeled larv
. The Biological bulletin. Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology. 30 M. G. HADFIELD AND M. A. R. KOEHL. Figure 1. Planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) image of rhodamine dye leaching from the surface of a reef of cleaned skeletons of Ponies compressa exposed to waves in a flume (single frame of a video made by M. A. Reidenbach and J. R. Koseff, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Stanford University). The brightness of the dye in the water is proportional to concentration (Crimaldi and Koseff, 2001). The arrow indicates the position of the modeled larva shown on the inset. Inset, segment of the PLIF image magnified with a dot representing the size of a larva among the filaments of dye. settlement into the complex three-dimensional communities of coral reefs. Coral-reef communities include not only the corals themselves, but also many algal species, reef fishes, and a host of invertebrates from many phyla living on and among the corals (Paulay, 1997). Most of the invertebrates in these communities have complex life cycles that include free-living larval stages. For many of the latter, successful recruitment depends on factors similar to those that confront larvae of P. sibogae. On Hawaiian reefs, these include the corals (Richmond, 1997), parasitic helminthics whose meta- cercariae encyst in the coral Porites compressa (Aeby, 1998), crustaceans that live on or within specific corals. coralliophilid snails that are obligate symbionts of corals (Kay, 1979), sessile vermetid gastropods (Hadfield et til., 1972). sponges that live among or within the skeletons of the corals (Glynn, 1997), serpulid polychaetes whose tubes become embedded in living coral colonies, polychaetes and asteroids that feed on corals, sipunculans that burrow into coral skeletons, and many others (Paulay, 1997). Gaining information on larval transport into the complex interstices of coral reefs and their retention there will enhance under- standing of
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