“…Though this study finds a high dispersal potential of anchovy larvae up to 500 km across the Black Sea in just 36 days, as well as a strong climateinduced interannual variability, these results are on similar scales to other connectivity studies that have been carried out in different seas, such as on anchovy larvae in the Benguela Parada et al, 2003) and Peru regions (Xu et al, 2013), benthic larvae in the Caribbean Sea (Cowan et al, 2006), Antarctic krill larvae in the Scotia Sea (Fach and Klinck, 2006;, as well as Lobster larvae in the Gulf of Maine (Xue et al, 2008;Incze et al, 2010). For example, it has been shown that in the southern Benguela important spawning grounds of anchovy may be hundreds of kilometers away from nursery areas (Parada et al, 2003), while for different reef fishes in the Caribbean, typical dispersal distances were on the order of tens to hundreds of kilometers (Cowen et al, 2006).…”