J.E. Randall’s scientific contributions

... The pioneer work of Sale (1968Sale ( , 1969 focused on the selection of a habitat by A. triostegus juveniles with respect to parameters such as individual juvenile size, fish communities, water depth, and substrate type. The numerous works that have followed, based on the capture of developing larvae on the reef crest, have addressed multiple questions such as the pelagic larval dispersal duration, based on otoliths analysis (McCormick 1999, Longenecker et al. 2008, Randall 2005b, the variation in the timing and duration of metamorphosis and the associated physiological changes (McCormick 1999) and diet shifts and body shape variation associated with settlement (Frédérich et al. 2012). Recent works examine the variations in the morphological, physiological, and behavioral changes during A. triostegus settlement in different types of natural habitats, and under environmental conditions disturbed by anthropogenic stresses Besson 2017, Besson et al. 2020, Reynaud et al. in press). ...

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Coral Reef Fish Larvae as Model Systems to Understand Marine Fish Larval Recruitment