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Types of propagule dispersal: Explain what lecithotrophic, planktotrophic and direct development means? What can you say about egg size, egg number, yolk reserve and hatching time?

Author: Asger LIndberg-Nielsen



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Planktotrophic - planktonic larvae that feed on planktonic organisms in free waters lecithotrophic - feeding on egg yolk until they become planctonic direct development - no metamorphosis


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Planktotrophic - planktonic larvae that feed on planktonic organisms in free waters

lecithotrophic - feeding on egg yolk until they become planctonic 

direct development - no metamorphosis
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