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Combining genetic and demographic data for the conservation of a Mediterranean marine habitat-forming species.
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- Chasing genetic structure in coralligenous reef invertebrates: patterns, criticalities and conservation issues.Scientific reports · 2018Pooled it
- Impact of life history traits on gene flow: A multispecies systematic review across oceanographic barriers in the Mediterranean Sea.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
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- Recurrent Extreme Climatic Events Are Driving Gorgonian Populations to Local Extinction: Low Adaptive Potential to Marine Heatwaves.Global change biology · 2024Article
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- Lethal and sublethal effects of thermal stress on octocorals early life-history stages.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Population collapse of habitat-forming species in the Mediterranean: a long-term study of gorgonian populations affected by recurrent marine heatwaves.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- The Genome Sequence of the OctocoralG3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Article
- Regional and local environmental conditions do not shape the response to warming of a marine habitat-forming species.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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- Genetic Diversity and Local Connectivity in the Mediterranean Red Gorgonian Coral after Mass Mortality Events.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
The integration of ecological and evolutionary data is highly valuable for conservation planning. However, it has been rarely used in the marine realm, where the adequate design of marine protected areas (MPAs) is urgently needed. Here, we examined the interacting processes underlying the patterns of genetic structure and demographic strucuture of a highly vulnerable Mediterranean habitat-forming species (i.e. Paramuricea clavata (Risso, 1826)), with particular emphasis on the processes of contemporary dispersal, genetic drift, and colonization of a new population. Isolation by distance and genetic discontinuities were found, and three genetic clusters were detected; each submitted to variations in the relative impact of drift and gene flow. No founder effect was found in the new population. The interplay of ecology and evolution revealed that drift is strongly impacting the smallest, most isolated populations, where partial mortality of individuals was highest. Moreover, the eco-evolutionary analyses entailed important conservation implications for P. clavata. Our study supports the inclusion of habitat-forming organisms in the design of MPAs and highlights the need to account for genetic drift in the development of MPAs. Moreover, it reinforces the importance of integrating genetic and demographic data in marine conservation.
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