Table 2. Effect of vertical migration on dispersal distances, connectivity and larval export.
Variable | Without vertical migration | With vertical migration | p |
Dispersal distance (median) | 102.89±0.03 | 73.66±0.04 | 1.49E−49 |
Dispersal distance (75th percentile) | 196.67±0.05 | 155.02±0.10 | 1.98E−45 |
Connectance | 0.0476±0.0005 | 0.0371±0.0005 | 3.54E−20 |
Number of strongly connected clusters | 46.6±3.5 | 61.3±1.6 | 4.33E−10 |
Number of weakly connected clusters | 6.1±0.7 | 10.6±1.0 | 7.52E−10 |
Fraction of larvae retained on continental shelf | 0.4414±0.0002 | 0.4827±0.0002 | 8.03E−39 |
Fraction of shelf area not receiving larvae | 0.2231±0.0014 | 0.2997±0.0011 | 1.70E−28 |
Values are mean ± standard deviation on 10 replicates. Differences in variables between scenarios with and without vertical migration were tested using Student’s t test.