WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.1.3 - Ecological connectivity of Kimberley marine communities (ECU - AIMS)

The overarching objective is to infer the routine distances of dispersal and patterns of connectivity among key populations within the Kimberley. Nine sub-projects will address this objective. The data provided by these methods are complimentary, and each improves the others. The projects and objectives can be summarised as: - Existing samples and desktop study - Genetic analyses - Coral stock-recruitment and larval durations - Fish otolith microchemistry Genotypes data have been generated from seven marine organisms: 1. Tectus niloticus - gastropod (CSIRO) 2. Pomacentrus milleri - fish (CSIRO) 3. Lutjanus carponotatus - fish (CSIRO) 4. Halophila ovalis - seagrass (ECU) 5. Thalassia hemprichii - seagrass (ECU) 6. Isopora brueggmanni - coral (AIMS) 7. Acropora aspera - coral (AIMS) There is a CSIRO metadata record that describes data for Tectus niloticus; Pomacentrus milleri and Lutjanus carponotatus (http://www.marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/search#!0d389dab-d6e2-4895-ba09-389e689b565e)