Dataset: Linked Demographic Connectivity Matrices
Deployment: BC_May2003-Nov2009

Larval connectivity data are based on trace elemental fingerprinting. Reference algorithms are based on shell chemistry of larvae outplanted at study sites.

The data also appear as online appendices in:
Carson, H.S., G. Cook, M. Paola López-Duarte and Lisa A. Levin.
Evaluating the importance of demographic connectivity in a marine metapopulation
Ecology 92: 1972-84.
This paper provides the demographic methods.

Elemental Fingerprinting methods are described in:
Becker, B.J., Levin, L.A., Fodrie, F.J. and McMillan, P.A. Complex larval retention patterns in marine invertebrates. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 104: 3267-3272.

Carson, H.S., Lopez-Duarte, M.P., Wang, D., Levin, L.A., Time series reveals how reproductive timing alters coastal connectivity. Current Biology 20: 1926-1931 (2010).

Fodrie, F.J., Becker, B.J., Levin, L.A., Gruenthal, K., McMillan, P., Connectivity clues from short-term variability in settlement and geochemical tags of mytilid mussels. Journal of Sea Research 65: 141-50 (2011).