Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

21 Jul, 11 PM - 23 Jul, 11 AM

Many marine species produce pelagic larvae that can be advected away from their natal source by oceanic currents. Predicting their destination has been one of the foremost challenges for marine biologists. Identification of the natal source of incoming recruits has tremendous consequences for understanding population dynamics as well as for the design of effective marine reserve networks. The proposed research will use environmentally induced tags in the statoliths of recently recruited Kelletia kelletii whelks as well as genetic tagging techniques to examine exchange of larvae among distinct regions of this species? range. Encapsulated larvae will be collected within the Big Creek reserve, as well as tissue samples from adult whelks. Calcified structures from the larvae will be isolated and chemically analyzed, the tissue samples from the adult whelks will be genotyped.

Visit #5626 @Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

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Under Project # 4411 | Research

Tracking Kellet's whelk larval dispersal trajectories

faculty - California State University (CSU), Fullerton

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Danielle Zacherl Jul 21 - 23, 2004 (3 days)
Danielle Zacherl Jul 21 - 23, 2004 (3 days)

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Day use 2 Jul 21 - 23, 2004
Day Use Only 2 Jul 21 - 23, 2004