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- Intraspecific diversity is vital for the resilience of Chinook salmon populations, particularly in California's Central Valley, which historically had a rich variety of these fish.
- Human activities have significantly reduced this diversity, leading to negative impacts on the salmon populations' ability to withstand environmental changes.
- Using advanced sequencing techniques, researchers found notable differences in migration timing and body size among different subpopulations, emphasizing the significance of maintaining these distinct groups for conservation efforts.
Evaluating expert-based habitat suitability information of terrestrial mammals with GPS-tracking data.
Glob Ecol Biogeogr
August 2022
Department of Environmental Science Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands.
Aim: Macroecological studies that require habitat suitability data for many species often derive this information from expert opinion. However, expert-based information is inherently subjective and thus prone to errors. The increasing availability of GPS tracking data offers opportunities to evaluate and supplement expert-based information with detailed empirical evidence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany pathogens interact and evolve in communities where more than one host species is present, yet our understanding of host-pathogen specialization is mostly informed by laboratory studies with single species. Managing diseases in the wild, however, requires understanding how host-pathogen specialization affects hosts in diverse communities. Juvenile salmonid mortality in hatcheries caused by infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) has important implications for salmonid conservation programs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA conceptual map of invasion biology: Integrating hypotheses into a consensus network.
Glob Ecol Biogeogr
June 2020
Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy Institute of Biology Freie Universität Berlin Berlin Germany.
Background And Aims: Since its emergence in the mid-20th century, invasion biology has matured into a productive research field addressing questions of fundamental and applied importance. Not only has the number of empirical studies increased through time, but also has the number of competing, overlapping and, in some cases, contradictory hypotheses about biological invasions. To make these contradictions and redundancies explicit, and to gain insight into the field's current theoretical structure, we developed and applied a Delphi approach to create a consensus network of 39 existing invasion hypotheses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe blacklegged tick is the primary vector for the bacterium causing Lyme disease in eastern North America and for other medically important pathogens. This species is vulnerable to attack by fungal pathogens and arthropod predators, but the impacts of interactions between biocontrol agents have not been examined. The biocontrol agent Met52, containing the entomopathogenic fungus (=), controls blacklegged ticks with efficacy comparable to chemical acaricides.
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