Publications by authors named "Jacqueline L Sones"
Article Synopsis
- Understanding eco-evolutionary feedbacks is crucial as climate change affects global biodiversity, particularly during species range shifts, with two forms of expansion: "pulled" from low-density populations and "pushed" from high-density populations.
- Research on the owl limpet (Lottia gigantea) during marine heatwaves showed that its poleward expansion was characterized by low genomic differentiation between core and leading-edge populations, indicating a "pushed" wave expansion.
- The study highlights that extreme climatic events can enhance range expansions and adaptive potential, but trailing-edge populations face challenges due to local selection, limited gene flow, and differences in climatic stability.
Wetlands store 20-30% of the world's soil carbon, and identifying the microbial controls on these carbon reserves is essential to predicting feedbacks to climate change. Although viral infections likely play important roles in wetland ecosystem dynamics, we lack a basic understanding of wetland viral ecology. Here 63 viral size-fraction metagenomes (viromes) and paired total metagenomes were generated from three time points in 2021 at seven fresh- and saltwater wetlands in the California Bodega Marine Reserve.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring 2014-2016, severe marine heatwaves in the northeast Pacific triggered well-documented disturbances including mass mortalities, harmful algal blooms, and declines in subtidal kelp beds. However, less attention has been directed towards understanding how changes in sea surface temperature (SST) and alongshore currents during this period influenced the geographic distribution of coastal taxa. Here, we examine these effects in northern California, USA, with a focus on the region between Point Reyes and Point Arena.
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