Ocean currents and genetic connectedness in a complex archipelago

沿海社区开放到什么程度？，即海洋多久会把幼虫从产卵地点带到很远的地方，这种海洋运输对遗传信息的传播有什么影响？这些是生物海洋学的一些最基本的问题；该项目将提供新的答案，通过使用来自西澳大利亚的Houtman Abrolhos群岛的极其详细的基因数据集，以及特别适合该环境并在澳大利亚开发的先进数值海洋模型。

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.