Hi Stephen,

Sorry for the lack of documentation on that. The size of self-recruitment circles does not relate to anything about connectivity. The radius of the circle is set to the minor axis of the zonal geometry of the patch. The idea was to scale the circle to the size of the patch so that the visualization looks reasonable for situations in which there are both small and large patches. If the circle was a fixed size, it would be hard to pick a size that looked ok for both small and large patches. That’s what I thought, at any rate. If you have a better suggestion, including ideas for scaling it according to some connectivity-related idea, please let me know...

Best,

Jason

Hi all,

I thought I had remembered reading somewhere about how to interpret the results of the “Visualize Larval Dispersal Simulation Results” tool somewhere, but now I can’t find it. It’s not in the help for the tool itself or on the MGET Larval Connectivity Modeling Tools webpage. It’s mostly self-explanatory except for what the size of the self-recruitment circles represents. It’s not the probability or the quantity of larvae released, so what does it represent?

Thanks,

Stephen