FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Coupling hydrodynamic and individual-based models to simulate long-term larval supply to coastal nursery areas BT AF ROCHETTE, Sebastien HURET, Martin RIVOT, Etienne LE PAPE, Olivier AS 1:1,2;2:2;3:1;4:1; FF 1:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-AG;2:PDG-RBE-STH-LBH;3:;4:; C1 Agrocampus Ouest, UMR 985 Inra Ecol & Sante Ecosys, CS 84215, F-35042 Rennes, France. IFREMER, Dept Dynam Environm Cotier, F-29280 Plouzane, France. C2 AGROCAMPUS OUEST, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-ODE-DYNECO-AG PDG-RBE-STH-LBH IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france IF 2.2 TC 38 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00085/19598/17236.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;eastern Channel;hydrodynamic model;individual-based model;larval supply;nursery grounds;recruitment variability;Solea solea AB For many marine fish species, recruitment is strongly related to larval survival and dispersal to nursery areas. Simulating larval drift should help assessing the sensitivity of recruitment variability to early life history. An individual-based model (IBM) coupled to a hydrodynamic model was used to simulate common sole larval supply from spawning areas to coastal and estuarine nursery grounds at the population scale in the eastern Channel on a 14-yr time series, from 1991 to 2004. The IBM allowed each particle released to be transported by currents from the hydrodynamic model, to grow with temperature, to migrate vertically giving stage development, and possibly to die according to drift duration, representing the life history from spawning to metamorphosis. Despite sensitivity to the larval mortality rate, the model provided realistic simulations of cohort decline and spatio-temporal variability of larval supply. The model outputs were analysed to explore the effects of hydrodynamics and life history on the interannual variability of settled sole larvae in coastal nurseries. Different hypotheses of the spawning spatial distribution were also tested, comparing homogeneous egg distribution to observation and potential larval survival (PLS) maps. The sensitivity analyses demonstrated that larval supply is more sensitive to the life history along larval drift than to the phenology and volume of spawning, providing explanations for the lack of significant stock–recruitment relationship. Nevertheless, larval supply is sensitive to spawning distribution. Results also suggested a very low connectivity between supposed different sub-populations in the eastern Channel. PY 2012 SO Fisheries Oceanography SN 1054-6006 PU Wiley-blackwell VL 21 IS 4 UT 000304819100001 BP 229 EP 242 DI 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2012.00621.x ID 19598 ER EF