Department Fish Ecology and Evolution

Under projected climate change scenarios, we are expecting dramatic changes to the temperature regimes experienced by shallow-water marine animals. These include tropical reef-associated fishes, which comprise one of the most diverse vertebrate radiations on the planet. These changes are expected to impact patterns of diversity at not just between species, but also within them.

The intention of the project is to simulate the response of global tropical fish biodiversity under projected changing sea temperature regimes at both the species and population levels of biological organisation. The goal is to understand diversity dynamics across organisational scale and the respective roles of dispersal, thermal tolerance, and adaptive potential in modulating them.