Dutch title: Metapopulaties van mariene vissen: een modelstudie van de zandgrondel Pomatoschistus minutus op het Belgisch Continentaal Plat Funder identifier: 3E000677 (Other contract id) Period: December 2000 till November 2003 Status: Completed
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Departement Biologie; Afdeling Dierenecologie en -systematiek; Diversiteit en Systematiek van Dieren, more, co-ordinator
Marine organisms live in metapopulations because of connectivity in the ocean. A very common demersal fish, the sand goby, of the Belgian Continental shelf will be studied with high-resolution genetic markers to quantify spatio-temporal variation in population structure. We expect that geographical and oceanographic characteristics influence the structure on a large scale while behaviour traits influence small-scale patterns.
