Dear ecologgers, I'm currently working with some colleagues on a comparative project examining differences in life history traits and trade-offs between sessile/limited-mobility plant and animal species in terrestrial vs marine ecosystems. We've got quite a lot of data for the terrestrial realm, but not heaps for the marine, thus rendering our comparisons a bit tricky. Could somebody suggest some publications, books, open- access databases, close-access sources for life history traits in marine ecosystems (e.g. generation time, generation overlap, mean life expectancy, age at sexual maturity, relative growth rate, degree of iteroparity, net reproductive rate, mature life expectancy, post-reproductive life expectancy, etc). The trick is that it must be for strictly sessile (e.g. corals, algae), or short-mobility life forms when adult. Cheers, Rob Salguero-Gomez
"Aliud iter ad prosperitatem nos est: id est omnibus rebus vincere" .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Dr Rob Salguero-Gómez NERC Independent Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield Honorary research fellow of the University of Queensland Guest researcher of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/salguero-gomez http://sites.google.com/site/RobResearchSite/
