Nemo Findings: How clownfish help resolve fundamental ecological questions

Giacomo Bernardi, a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz, comes to the Seymour Marine Discovery Center for a special presentation on clownfish. For decades, scientists have been stumped by fundamental questions in marine ecology such as: How do populations replenish themselves? How do they maintain stable numbers? How far do fish larvae travel, and where are they headed? This presentation explores how clownfishes can help to shed light on all of these questions, and many others from the nature of sequential hermaphroditism in fishes, to the future of our oceans with global warming trends and ocean acidification.