Linking fish recruitment and habitat use to ecosystem processes

河口是淡水和海水之间的过渡地带，是渔业的主要育苗区。由于我们缺乏关于鱼类招募和迁徙的重要信息，因此很难理解是什么使一个河口成为育儿区，以及鱼类是如何依赖河口的。我们将利用化学和遗传技术来确定鱼类的招募和迁徙模式，并将这些模式与鱼类的生物特征和周围景观的物理变量联系起来。结果将为管理者提供关键的景观属性，而不是需要保护。这些信息对于鱼类和河口资源的持续可持续性至关重要，并将使沿海农村社区受益。

Estuaries are transition zones between fresh and marine waters and form key nursery areas for fisheries. Understanding what makes an estuary a nursery area, and how dependent fish are on estuaries, is difficult because we lack vital information on fish recruitment and migrations. We will utilise chemical and genetic techniques to determine patterns of recruitment and migration of fish and link these patterns to biological characteristics of fish and physical variables of surrounding landscapes. Outcomes will provide managers with key landscape attributes than require conservation. Such information is vital for continued sustainability of fish and estuarine resources and will benefit rural coastal communities.