Past population history versus recent population decline - founder effects in island species and their genetic signatures

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 206-207

  Habel, Jan Christian ^a   Zachos, Frank E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Colonization; Founder effect; Habitat decline; Island populations; Population bottleneck; Population fluctuation; Purging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871327291     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12017     Document Type: Letter

References (10)

1. Agudo, R., Rico, C., Vilà, C., Hiraldo, F. & Donázar, J.A. (2010) The role of humans in the diversification of a threatened island raptor. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10, 384.
2. Bollmer, J.L., Kimball, R.T., Whiteman, N.K., Sarasola, J.H. & Parker, P.G. (2006) Phylogeography of the Galápagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis): a recent arrival to the Galápagos Islands. Molecular Phylo-genetics and Evolution, 39, 237-247.
3. Frankham, R. (1997) Do island populations have less genetic variation than mainland populations? Heredity, 78, 311-327.
4. Frankham, R., Gilligan, D.M., Morris, D. & Briscoe, D.A. (2001) Inbreeding and extinction: effects of purging. Conservation Genetics, 2, 279-285.
5. Gugger, P.F. & Cavender-Bares, J. (2011) Molecular and morphological support for a Florida origin of the Cuban oak. Journal of Biogeography, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02610.x.
6. Johnson, J.A., Tingay, R.E., Culver, M., Hailer, F., Clarke, M.L. & Mindell, D.P. (2009) Long-term survival despite low genetic diversity in the critically endangered Madagascar fish-eagle. Molecular Ecology, 18, 54-63.
7. Kretzmann, M.B., Capote, N., Gautschi, B., Godoy, J.A., Donázar, J.A. & Negro, J.J. (2003) Genetically distinct island populations of the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus). Conservation Genetics, 4, 697-706.
8. Melbourne, B.A. & Hastings, A. (2008) Extinction risk depends strongly on factors contributing to stochasticity. Nature, 454, 100-103.
9. Stuessy, T.F., Takayama, K. & Sepúlveda, P.L. (2012) Founder effects are invisible in endemic species of oceanic islands. Journal of Biogeography, 39, 1565-1566.
10. Whittaker, R.J. & Fernández-Palacios, J.M. (2007) Island biogeography: ecology, evolution, and conservation, 2nd edn. Oxford University Press, Oxford.