ArticleEvolutionary applications2016
Harvest-induced evolution and effective population size.
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- Harvest and decimation affect genetic drift and the effective population size in wild reindeer.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
- Genetic decline and recovery of a demographically rebuilt fishery species.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Demographic resilience of brook trout populations subjected to experimental size-selective harvesting.Evolutionary applications · 2022Article
- Harvest is associated with the disruption of social and fine-scale genetic structure among matrilines of a solitary large carnivore.Evolutionary applications · 2021Article
- Robust estimates of a highScience advances · 2018Article
- Ecological and evolutionary consequences of alternative sex-change pathways in fish.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Harvest-induced evolution: insights from aquatic and terrestrial systems.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
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Abstract
Much has been written about fishery-induced evolution (FIE) in exploited species, but relatively little attention has been paid to the consequences for one of the most important parameters in evolutionary biology-effective population size (N e). We use a combination of simulations of Atlantic cod populations experiencing harvest, artificial manipulation of cod life tables, and analytical methods to explore how adding harvest to natural mortality affects N e, census size (N), and the ratio N e/N. We show that harvest-mediated reductions in N e are due entirely to reductions in recruitment, because increasing adult mortality actually increases the N e/N ratio. This means that proportional reductions in abundance caused by harvest represent an upper limit to the proportional reductions in N e, and that in some cases N e can even increase with increased harvest. This result is a quite general consequence of increased adult mortality and does not depend on harvest selectivity or FIE, although both of these influence the results in a quantitative way. In scenarios that allowed evolution, N e recovered quickly after harvest ended and remained higher than in the preharvest population for well over a century, which indicates that evolution can help provide a long-term buffer against loss of genetic variability.
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