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Patrick Goymer
Chief Editor, Nature Ecology & Evolution
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Dispersal of the orange clownfish Amphiprion percula (shown here on coral reef in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea) is largely determined by movements during a pelagic larval stage.  Accurate estimates of the distances traveled by larvae from spawning sites is critical to the design and evaluation of networks of marine reserves. Photo by Simon R. Thorrold.

Almany, G. R. et al., Larval fish dispersal in a coral-reef seascape. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 1, 0148 (2017).

Go to the profile of Patrick Goymer
Patrick Goymer
Chief Editor, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Patrick joined Nature Publishing Group in 2005 as an Assistant Editor at Nature Reviews Genetics and Nature Reviews Cancer. In 2008 he moved to Nature, where he served as Senior Editor covering ecology and evolution, before becoming Chief Editor of Nature Ecology & Evolution in 2016. He has handled primary manuscripts and review articles across the entire breadth of ecology and evolution, as well as advising and writing for other sections of Nature. Patrick has a degree in genetics from the University of Cambridge, did his DPhil in experimental evolution at the University of Oxford, and did postdoctoral work on evolutionary and ecological genetics at University College London in association with Imperial College London at Silwood Park.

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