Rita Guillot
Rita is working on her masters comparing gobies across their distribution range from northern Norway to Portugal
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Her project used a common-garden experimental approach to investigate latitudinal, climate, temperature and salinity effects on growth and physiology of estuarine species such as gobies. These experiments will enable to determine whether latitudinal counter gradient compensation occurs in growth and general physiological performance. Some field investigations will be used to support laboratory observations. Field surveys will further provide information on reproduction and growth periods under natural environment which will be essential to confirm adaptation to the length of the growing season. Additionally, by using a second generation, non-genetic irreversible adaptation can be evaluated, as
well as a possible genetic basis of the observed latitudinal trends. Finally, morphometrics and meristics of estuarine species will be studied for each population source separately in order to evaluate possible latitudinal trends which could be related to environmental conditions.
Supervisors: Audrey Geffen (UiB) and Joana Campos (CIIMAR, Portugal)
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