Project Leader:
Paul Barber
(pbarber@bu.edu)
Kent Carpenter
(kcarpent@odu.edu)
Additional External Researchers:
Pat Halpern, Craig Starger, Eric Crandall
Locations: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Description:
The Coral Trianlge PIRE Project is a coordinated effort across the different countries and cultures of the Indo-Malay-Philippine Archipelago (IMPA) and the US, addressing the need for collaborative research in an area hypothesized as a center of origin for marine biodiversity and focusing on answering questions fundamental to the understanding of speciation in marine environments. Moving beyond traditional biogeography and phylogeography, the IMPA PIRE Project is advancing the science of speciation by clarifying the role of physical processes in promoting lineage diversification within the IMPA through limitations on larval dispersal and gene flow.
EI Unit:
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
Project Web Site:
ttp://sci.odu.edu/impa/
Collaborating Institutions:
Old Dominion University, Boston University, Duke University, American Museum of Natural History,
De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
University of the Philippines' Marine Science Institute, Quezon City, Philippines
The National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Philippines
Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia
Udayana University, Indonesia
UNIPA, The State University of Papua, Manokwari, Indonesia
Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia
Funding Agency:
National Science Foundation
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