Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0208659]Researchers: A/Prof Michael Johnson (Chief Investigator) , A/Prof William Black (Chief Investigator) , Dr Clifford Hearn (Chief Investigator)
Brief description Ocean currents and genetic connectedness in a complex archipelago. To what extent are marine coastal communities ?open?, i.e. how often do the oceans carry larvae far from their point of spawning, and what influence does such ocean transport have on the spread of genetic information? These are some of the most fundamental questions of biological oceanography; the project will provide new answers by using an extremely detailed genetic data set from the Houtman Abrolhos Islands off Western Australian together with an advanced numerical ocean model especially suited to that environment and developed in Australia.
Funding Amount $165,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0208659
- ARC : DP0208659