John A. Commito
Environmental Studies Department
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325 USA
E-mail: jcommito@gettysburg.edu

Ann E. Commito
Mathematics Department
Frederick Community College
Frederick, Maryland 21702 USA
E-mail: acommito@frederick.edu

Rutherford V. Platt
Environmental Studies Department
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325 USA
E-mail: rplatt@gettysburg.edu

Benjamin M. Grupe
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California 92093 USA
E-mail: bgrupe@ucsd.edu

Wendy E. Dow Piniak
Office of Protected Resources
National Marine Fisheries Service
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 USA
E-mail: wendy.piniak@noaa.gov

Natasha J. Gownaris
Institute for Ocean Conservation Science
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Stony Brook University
100 Nicholls Road
Stony Brook, New York 11794-5000 USA
E-mail: ngownaris@gmail.com

Kyle A. Reeves
Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting Co., LLC
549 South Street
Quincy, Massachusetts 02269 USA
E-mail: kyleareeves@gmail.com

Allison M. Vissichelli
American University Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC 20016 USA
E-mail: avissichelli@gmail.com

Mussel_Recruitment_Model_description_and_source_code_June_2014.txt (MD5: e29281a06751245eda695b7b678b2243)

mussel_recruitment_model.exe (MD5: 0eee8f1d904aca658f2accbe8b13d636)

The Recruitment Facilitation Model allows the user to choose from four distinctly paired rules called "Edge" (recruitment facilitation at patch edge), "No Edge" (recruitment at any location), "Growth" (recruitment with bed growth), and "No Growth" (recruitment without bed growth), creating four possible scenarios. If desired, each of the four rules may be applied to a mussel bed where the user can spatially structure the probability of recruitment success, creating four additional scenarios.