Winter flounder ( Pseudopleuronectes americanus ) spawn demersal adhesive eggs in estuaries and on the continental shelf with patterns varying by climatic region. To identify habitat use and connectivity at the southern edge of their population during the spawning season, we telemetered adult winter flounder ingress, egress, and residence in and through the Barnegat Bay Estuarine Complex and adjacent coastal ocean. Some adults...

The demographic history of a population is important for conservation and evolution, but this history is unknown for many populations. Methods that use genomic data have been developed to infer demography, but they can be challenging to implement and interpret, particularly for large populations. Thus, understanding if and when genetic estimates of demography correspond to true population history is important for assessing the...

Dispersal sets the fundamental scales of ecological and evolutionary dynamics and has important implications for population persistence. Patterns of marine dispersal remain poorly understood, partly because dispersal may vary through time and often homogenizes allele frequencies. However, combining multiple types of natural tags can provide more precise dispersal estimates, and biological collections can help to reconstruct di...

The population structure of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus , along the U.S. Atlantic coast has recently been redefined from one homogenous population into five coastal stocks. Local studies indicate even finer structure, primarily based on isolation of dolphins inhabiting estuaries. We identified population structuring of non‐estuarine coastal bottlenose dolphins during a study in New Jersey, the northern range along...

Coastal bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus ) form a mosaic of resident and seasonal migratory populations along the United States Atlantic seaboard. Seasonal, poorly known migrants (identified as a separate stock) move as far north as New Jersey. During 2003–2005, 73 boat‐based photo‐identification surveys were conducted in southern New Jersey to discern seasonal occurrence, distribution, and patterns of movement and sit...