Project description
Biodiversity maintenance in marine lakes
For over 150 years, insular environments have served as biodiversity hotspots. Traditionally, the study of the origin and maintenance of biodiversity in islands have relied on ecological aspects of biogeography such as immigration, colonisation and extinction, whereas microevolutionary processes such as adaptation have been neglected. The combination of microevolution and island biogeography theory is a crucial step. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the ADAPTIVEISLANDS project will study marine lakes – lakes situated very close to the sea and connected to it – to reveal the origin and maintenance of fish biodiversity by understanding the interaction between colonisation, extinction and adaptation. The project will compare marine lakes of similar age, size and environmental conditions, but with a different isolation level to the sea, in Raja Ampat, Indonesia.
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit Grant
Coordinator
6708 PB Wageningen
Netherlands
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