TY - JOUR T1 - Sole larval supply to coastal nurseries: Interannual variability and connectivity at interregional and interpopulation scales A1 - Savina-,Marie A1 - Lunghi,Mathias A1 - Archambault,B. A1 - Baulier,Loic A1 - Huret,Martin A1 - Le Pape,Olivier AD - IFREMER, Channel & North Sea Fisheries Dept, 150 Quai Gambetta,BP 699, F-62321 Boulogne Sur Mer, France. AD - AGROCAMPUS OUEST, ESE Ecol & Sante Ecosyst UMR985, F-35042 Rennes, France. AD - IFREMER, STH LBH, BP 70, F-29280 Plouzane, France. UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2015.11.010 DO - 10.1016/j.seares.2015.11.010 KW - hydrodynamic model KW - individual-based model KW - larval supply KW - nursery grounds KW - recruitment variability KW - Solea solea KW - metapopulation KW - English Channel KW - Bay of Biscay KW - southern North Sea N2 - Simulating fish larval drift helps assess 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 meta-population scale (4 assessed stocks), from the southern North Sea to the Bay of Biscay (Western Europe) on a 26-yr time series, from 1982 to 2007. The IBM allowed each particle released to be transported by currents, to grow depending on temperature, to migrate vertically depending on development stage, to die along pelagic stages or to settle successfully on a nursery, representing the life history from spawning to metamorphosis. The model outputs were analysed to explore interannual patterns in the amounts of settled sole larvae at the population scale; they suggested: (i) a low connectivity between populations at the larval stage, (ii) a moderate influence of interannual variation in the spawning biomass, (iii) dramatic consequences of life history on the abundance of settling larvae and (iv) the effects of climate variability on the interannual variability of the larvae settlement success. Y1 - 2016/05 PB - Elsevier Science Bv JF - Journal Of Sea Research SN - 1385-1101 VL - 111 SP - 1 EP - 10 ID - 40775 ER -