Recruitment areas#
Broader “Criteria class”
Description#
E.g. Larval sink areas.
“For open marine populations, recruitment is generally defined as the addition of individuals to local populations following settlement from the pelagic larval phase to the benthic or demersal early juvenile phase.”
(Caley et al., 1996, Recruitment and the Local Dynamics of Open Marine Populations, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.27.1.477)