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shape=rect><FONT color=#000000><SPAN id=volumeNumber>Volume 99</SPAN>, <SPAN
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1026–1032</SPAN>, <SPAN id=issueDate>July 2011</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=articleTitle><FONT size=4>Variation in the strength of continental
boundary currents determines continent-wide connectivity in kelp</FONT></DIV>
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xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Melinda A. Coleman<SUP>1,2,3,*</SUP>,
Moninya Roughan<SUP>4,5</SUP>, Helen S. Macdonald<SUP>4</SUP>, Sean D.
Connell<SUP>2</SUP>, Bronwyn M. Gillanders<SUP>2</SUP>, Brendan P.
Kelaher<SUP>3</SUP>, Peter D. Steinberg<SUP>1,5</SUP></DIV>
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sizcache="1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><SUP>1</SUP> Center for Marine
BioInnovation and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science, 501B
Biological Sciences Bldg., University of New South Wales, NSW 2052,
Australia<SUP>2</SUP> Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Earth and
Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia<SUP>3</SUP>
NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, Batemans Marine Park,
Burrawang St, Narooma, NSW 2546, Australia<SUP>4</SUP> Coastal and Regional
Oceanography Laboratory, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New
South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia<SUP>5</SUP> Sydney Institute of Marine Science,
22 Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, NSW 2088, Australia. Correspondence: Melinda A.
Coleman, E-mail: <!--TODO: clickthrough URL--><A
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<P><B>1.</B> Determining the extent to which coastal oceanographic processes
facilitate connectivity of marine organisms underpins our understanding of the
ecology and evolution of marine communities. Continental boundary currents are a
dominant physical influence on marine connectivity, but determining their effect
has proved elusive because of difficulties in achieving replication of currents
within the distribution of a single species.</P></DIV>
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<P><B>2.</B> Australia provides an unparalleled opportunity to address such
questions because it has three replicate boundary currents within narrow
latitudinal ranges that share continentally distributed species. We tested
whether the strength of continental boundary currents influences coastal
connectivity of a dominant foundation species (the kelp <EM>Ecklonia
radiata</EM>).</P></DIV>
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<P><B>3.</B> Variation in the strength of different boundary currents produced
entirely different patterns of connectivity in kelp with high connectivity in
strong currents and low connectivity in weak currents. Spatial patterns of
genetic structuring were also correlated with the nature and strength of
currents.</P></DIV>
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<P><B>4.</B> <EM>Synthesis</EM>. This result has global implications;
continental boundary currents are key drivers of marine connectivity and give
predictive ability with which to understand variable ecologies of temperate
coastlines world-wide.</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>