Climate variability affecting the contranatant migration of Panulirus cygnus, the western rock lobster

Large-scale animal migrations have high energetic costs and are only undertaken for specific biological outcomes, including opening up habitat resources or for reproduction. Juvenile western rock lobsters (Panulirus cygnus) migrate firstly offshore and then northwards from their inshore nursery areas (
Author(s): Simon de Lestang[sup.1] , Nick Caputi[sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, PO Box 20, Northside Drive, Hillarys, WA, Australia Introduction Large-scale migrations occur in [...]