“…Turbulence affects many well-studied aspects of larval life cycles, including external fertilization, predation and settlement fluxes (Abelson and Denny, 1997;Kiørboe, 2011;Crimaldi and Zimmer, 2014); in contrast, waves have better-known influences on benthic organisms (Denny, 1988). Accelerations have been explored as a sensory cue only in the context of organism-induced vibrations (Lang, 1980;Heuch and Karlsen, 1997;Kiørboe et al, 1999), and wave motions have only recently been investigated as a habitat characteristic for larvae outside the surf zone (Reidenbach et al, 2009;Koehl et al, 2013). Both deformations and accelerations are largest in the surf zone, but these signals have unique joint distributions in other seascapes: in sheltered inlets and estuaries, large deformations can occur with small accelerations, whereas on the continental shelf and open ocean, small deformations can occur with large accelerations (H.L.F.…”