Marine community ecology: importance of trait-mediated effects propagating through complex life cycles

brates), there may be a distinct habitat-and sizedependent set of processes explaining the survival or growth rate at each phase. When the habitat is shared, size-dependent processes may still differentially affect the survival of individuals in different life phases. In marine benthic invertebrates, pelagic processes may act on the larval phase in the water column or at settlement; these factors include characteristics of the water