Robin Francis

I am interested in enhancing our understanding of fish population persistence through the framework of marine metapopulation dynamics. My projects focus on the starting point of these dynamics: variation in mating success and larval dispersal. I use emerging model systems in marine fish ecology and evolution, the line-snout neon goby, Elacatinus lori, and the orange anemonefish, Amphiprion percula, in a combination of field studies and lab experiments.