Do species conservation assessments capture genetic diversity?

Global Ecology and Conservation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 81-87

  Rivers, Malin C ^a,b   Brummitt, Neil A ^c   Nic Lughadha, Eimear ^b   Meagher, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation assessment; Conservation genetics; Extinction risk; Genetic diversity; IUCN Red List; Range

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915773914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23519894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Alsos I.G., Ehrich D., Thuiller W., Eidesen P.B., Tribsch A., Schönswetter P., Lagaye C., Taberlet P., Brochmann C. Genetic consequences of climate change for northern plants. Proc. R. Soc. B: Biol. Sci. 2012, 279:2042-2051.
2. Barrett R.D., Schluter D. Adaptation from standing genetic variation. Trends Ecol. & Evol. 2008, 23:38-44.
3. Bonin A., Ehrich D., Manel S. Statistical analysis of amplified fragment length polymorphism data: a toolbox for molecular ecologists and evolutionists. Mol. Ecol. 2007, 16:3737-3758.
4. Brummitt N., Nic Lughadha E. Biodiversity: Where's hot and where's not. Conserv. Biol. 2003, 17:1442-1448.
5. Doyle J.J., Doyle J.L. Isolation of plant DNA from fresh tissue. Focus 1990, 12:13-15.
6. Du Puy D.J., Labat J.-N., Rabevohitra R., Villiers J.-F., Bosser J., Moat J. The Leguminosae of Madagascar 2002, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.
7. Du Puy D.J., Phillipson P., Rabevohitra R. The genus Delonix (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae: Caesalpinieae) in Madagascar. Kew Bull. 1995, 50:445-475.
8. Dunphy B.K., Hamrick J.L. Estimation of gene flow into fragmented populations of Bursera simaruba (Burseraceae) in the dry-forest life zone of Puerto Rico. Am. J. Bot. 2007, 94:1786-1794.
9. Gaston K.J., Fuller R.A. The sizes of species' geographic ranges. J. Appl. Ecol. 2009, 46:1-9.
10. Goodman S.M., Benstead J.P. Updated estimates of biotic diversity and endemism for Madagascar. Oryx 2005, 39:73-77.
11. Group, I.S.a.P.W., 2010. Guidelines for using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria Version 8.0. Prepared by the Standards and Petitions Working Group of the IUCN SSC Biodiversity Assessments Sub-Committee in March 2010. Downloaded from http://intranet.iucn.org/webfiles/doc/SSC/RedList/RedListGuidelines.pdf.
12. Harper G.J., Steininger M.K., Tucker C.J., Juhn D., Hawkins F. Fifty years of deforestation and forest fragmentation in Madagascar. Environ. Conserv. 2007, 34:325-333.
13. Hermans J., Hermans C., Du Puy D.J., Cribb P.J., Bosser J. Orchids of Madagascar 2007, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.
14. Hernández H.M., Navarro M. A new method to estimate areas of occupancy using herbarium data. Biodivers. Conserv. 2007, 16:2457-2470.
15. Hoban S. An overview of the utility of population simulation software in molecular ecology. Mol. Ecol. 2014, 23:2383-2401.
16. Hoban S.M., Hauffe H.C., Perez-Espona S., Arntzen J.W., Bertorelle G., Bryja J., Frith K., Gaggiotti O.E., Galbusera P., Godoy J.A., Hoelzel A.R., Nichols R.A., Primmer C.R., Russo I.R., Segelbacher G., Siegismund H.R., Sihvonen M., Vernesi C., Vila C., Bruford M.W. Bringing genetic diversity to the forefront of conservation policy and management. Conserv. Genet. Resour. 2013, 5:593-598.
17. Holderegger R., Kamm U., Gugerli F. Adaptive vs. neutral genetic diversity: implications for landscape genetics. Landscape Ecol. 2006, 21:797-807.
18. IUCN IUCN Red List Categories: Version 3.1. Prepared by the IUCN Species Survival Commission 2001, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
19. Kalinowski S.T. Counting alleles with rarefaction: private alleles and hierarchical sampling designs. Conserv. Genet. 2004, 5:539-543.
20. Keller L.F., Waller D.M. Inbreeding effects in wild populations. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2002, 17:230-241.
21. Laikre L. Genetic diversity is overlooked in international conservation policy implementation. Conserv. Genet. 2010, 11:349-354.
22. Leberg P.L. Estimating allelic richness: effects of sample size and bottlenecks. Mol. Ecol. 2002, 11:2445-2449.
23. Mace G.M., Collar N.J., Gaston K.J., Hilton-Taylor C., Akçakaya H.R., Leader-Williams N., Milner-Gulland E.J., Stuart S.N. Quantification of extinction risk: IUCN's system for classifying threatened species. Conserv. Biol. 2008, 22:1424-1442.
24. Mace G.M., Purvis A. Evolutionary biology and practical conservation: bridging a widening gap. Mol. Ecol. 2008, 17:9-19.
25. Meagher T. A fragmented future for the forest flora. Heredity 2010, 105:163-164.
26. MEFT, UNEP, CI, 2009, Evolution de la couverture de forêts naturelles a Madagascar, 1990-2000-2005.
27. Mittermeier R.A., Gil P.R., Hoffman M., Pilgrim J., Brooks T., Mittermeier C.G., Lamoreux J., da Fonseca G.A.B. Hotspots Revisited: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Ecoregions 2005, Conservation International, Washington DC, USA.
28. Moat J. Conservation Assessment Tools Extension for ArcView 3.x, Version 1.2. GIS Unit 2007, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, Available at http://www.kew.org/gis/projects/cats/index.html.
29. Moat J., Smith P. Atlas of the Vegetation of Madagascar 2007, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.
30. Myers N., Mittermeier R.A., Mittermeier C.G., da Fonseca G.A.B., Kent j. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 2000, 403:853-858.
31. Nic Lughadha E., Baillie J., Barthlott W., Brummitt N.A., Cheek M.R., Farjon A., Govaerts R., Hardwick K.A., Hilton-Taylor C., Meagher T.R., Moat J., Mutke J., Paton A.J., Pleasants L.J., Savolainen V., Schatz G.E., Smith P., Turner I., Wyse-Jackson P., Crane P.R. Measuring the fate of plant diversity: towards a foundation for future monitoring and opportunities for urgent action. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2005, 360:359-372.
32. Pauls S.U., Nowak C., Bálint M., Pfenninger M. The impact of global climate change on genetic diversity within populations and species. Mol. Ecol. 2013, 22:925-946.
33. Rivers M.C. Range-wide Analysis of the Spatial Distribution and Genetic Diversity of Delonix s.l. (Leguminosae) in Madagascar: Enhancing Herbarium-Based Conservation Assessments 2011, 1-260. (Ph.D. thesis), University of St Andrews.
34. Rivers M.C., Bachman S., Meagher T.R., Nic Lughadha E., Brummitt N.A. Subpopulations, locations and fragmentation: applying IUCN red list criteria to herbarium specimen data. Biodivers. Conserv. 2010, 19:2071-2085.
35. Rivers M.C., Brummitt N.A., Nic Lughadha E., Meagher T.R. Genetic variation in Delonix s.l. (Leguminosae) in Madagascar revealed by AFLPs: fragmentation, conservation status and taxonomy. Conserv. Genet. 2011, 12:1333-1344.
36. Szpiech Z.A., Jakobsson M., Rosenberg N.A. ADZE: a rarefaction approach for counting alleles private to combinations of populations. Bioinformatics 2008, 24:2498.
37. Taberlet P., Zimmermann N.E., Englisch T., Tribsch A., Holderegger R., Alvarez N., Niklfeld H., Coldea G., Mirek Z., Moilanen A. Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities. Ecol. Lett. 2012, 15:1439-1448.
38. Vos P., Hogers R., Bleeker M., Reijans M., Vandelee T., Hornes M., Frijters A., Pot J., Peleman J., Kuiper M., Zabeau M. AFLP-a new technique for DNA fingerprinting. Nucleic Acids Res. 1995, 23:4407-4414.
39. Zhang J., Xie P., Lascoux M., Meagher T.R., Liu J. Rapidly evolving genes and stress adaptation of two desert poplars, Populus euphratica and P. pruinosa. PloS One 2013, 8:e66370.