The experiment
In 2019, our team worked hard to restock nine lakes with a total of 10000+ threespine stickleback, a fish species native to Alaska. In conjugation with the restocking, we were able to set up an enormous natural experiment investigating how different ecotypes of sticklebacks adapt to new habitats.
Our team
The project has become a multi-disciplinary collaboration between experts in different areas of biology, ranging from aquatic ecology to genomics and behavioural ecology. Today, we are a large international group involving over 50 scientists from 22 different research groups across 17 universities and institutions.