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10,000 lifetimes in a single figure.

This plot shows the capture history of 10,000 #guppies in one of our #LongTermEcology study populations in Trinidad, part of #TheGuppyProject

Each of these fish were caught, given a unique identifying tag / ID'd, measured, weighed, photographed, sampled for DNA, then released back where we found them.

See below for a zoom in...

#LifeHistories #ecology

I never got round to writing an #introduction, so here goes:

I am a #postdoc on #TheGuppyProject, which is a #LongTermStudy looking at stream ecosystems in Trinidad.

I am interested in #EvolutionaryEcology, in particular #LifeHistories and fluctuating dynamics.

I use field data, mescosm experiments, and models to try to understand ecological and evolutionary dynamics in the wild.