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Reem E, Douek J, Rinkevich B. Historical navigation routes in European waters leave their footprint on the contemporary seascape genetics of a colonial urochordate. Sci Rep 2023; 13:19076. [PMID: 37925572 PMCID: PMC10625628 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-46174-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2023] [Accepted: 10/28/2023] [Indexed: 11/06/2023] Open
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Humans have intensively sailed the Mediterranean and European Atlantic waters throughout history, from the upper Paleolithic until today and centuries of human seafaring have established complex coastal and cross-seas navigation networks. Historical literature revealed three major long-lasting maritime routes (eastern, western, northern) with four commencing locations (Alexandria, Venice, Genoa, Gibraltar) and a fourth route (circum-Italian) that connected between them. Due to oceangoing and technological constraints, most voyages were coastal, lasted weeks to months, with extended resting periods, allowing the development of fouling organisms on ship hulls. One of the abiding travellers in maritime routes is the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri already known since the eighteenth century in European and Mediterranean ports. This species, was almost certainly one of the common hull fouling travellers in all trade routes for centuries. Employing COI haplotypes (1008 samples) and microsatellite alleles (995 samples) on colonies sampled from 64 pan-European sites, present-day Botryllus populations in the Mediterranean Sea/European Atlantic revealed significant segregation between all four maritime routes with a conspicuous partition of the northern route. These results reveal that past anthropogenic transports of sedentary marine species throughout millennia long seafaring have left their footprint on contemporary seascape genetics of marine organisms.
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- Eitan Reem
- Israel Oceanography and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Tel Shikmona, P.O. Box 9753, 3109701, Haifa, Israel.
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- Israel Oceanography and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Tel Shikmona, P.O. Box 9753, 3109701, Haifa, Israel
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- Israel Oceanography and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Tel Shikmona, P.O. Box 9753, 3109701, Haifa, Israel
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Clubley CH, Firth LB, Wood LE, Bilton DT, Silva TAM, Knights AM. Science paper or big data? Assessing invasion dynamics using observational data. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 877:162754. [PMID: 36921858 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Non-native species are spreading at an unprecedented rate over large spatial scales, with global environmental change and growth in commerce providing novel opportunities for range expansion. Assessing the pattern and rate of spread is key to the development of strategies for safeguarding against future invasions and efficiently managing existing ones. Such assessments often depend on spatial distribution data from online repositories, which can be spatially biased, imprecise, and lacking in quantity. Here, the influence of disparities between occurrence records from online data repositories and what is known of the invasion history from peer-reviewed published literature on non-native species range expansion was evaluated using 6693 records of the Pacific oyster, Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793), spanning 56 years of its invasion in Europe. Two measures of spread were calculated: maximum rate of spread (distance from introduction site over time) and accumulated area (spatial expansion). Results suggest that despite discrepancies between online and peer-reviewed data sources, including a paucity of records from the early invasion history in online repositories, the use of either source does not result in significantly different estimates of spread. Our study significantly improves our understanding of the European distribution of M. gigas and suggests that a combination of short- and long-range dispersal drives range expansions. More widely, our approach provides a framework for comparison of online occurrence records and invasion histories as documented in the peer-reviewed literature, allowing critical evaluation of both data sources and improving our understanding of invasion dynamics significantly.
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- Charlotte H Clubley
- School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom.
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- School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Blue Governance, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 3DE, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom; Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa
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- Lowestoft Laboratory, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, NR33 0HT Lowestoft, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
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Touchard F, Simon A, Bierne N, Viard F. Urban rendezvous along the seashore: Ports as Darwinian field labs for studying marine evolution in the Anthropocene. Evol Appl 2023; 16:560-579. [PMID: 36793678 PMCID: PMC9923491 DOI: 10.1111/eva.13443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Revised: 06/16/2022] [Accepted: 06/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Humans have built ports on all the coasts of the world, allowing people to travel, exploit the sea, and develop trade. The proliferation of these artificial habitats and the associated maritime traffic is not predicted to fade in the coming decades. Ports share common characteristics: Species find themselves in novel singular environments, with particular abiotic properties-e.g., pollutants, shading, protection from wave action-within novel communities in a melting pot of invasive and native taxa. Here, we discuss how this drives evolution, including setting up of new connectivity hubs and gateways, adaptive responses to exposure to new chemicals or new biotic communities, and hybridization between lineages that would have never come into contact naturally. There are still important knowledge gaps, however, such as the lack of experimental tests to distinguish adaptation from acclimation processes, the lack of studies to understand the putative threats of port lineages to natural populations or to better understand the outcomes and fitness effects of anthropogenic hybridization. We thus call for further research examining "biological portuarization," defined as the repeated evolution of marine species in port ecosystems under human-altered selective pressures. Furthermore, we argue that ports act as giant mesocosms often isolated from the open sea by seawalls and locks and so provide replicated life-size evolutionary experiments essential to support predictive evolutionary sciences.
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- ISEM, EPHE, IRDUniversité MontpellierMontpellierFrance
- Center of Population Biology and Department of Evolution and EcologyUniversity of California DavisDavisCaliforniaUSA
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Hong Y, He Y, Lin Z, Du Y, Chen S, Han L, Zhang Q, Gu S, Tu W, Hu S, Yuan Z, Liu X. Complex origins indicate a potential bridgehead introduction of an emerging amphibian invader (Eleutherodactylus planirostris) in China. NEOBIOTA 2022. [DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.77.83205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Identifying the origins of established alien species is important to prevent new introductions in the future. The greenhouse frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris), native to Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Cayman Islands, has been widely introduced to the Caribbean, North and Central America, Oceania and Asia. This invasive alien amphibian was recently reported in Shenzhen, China, but the potential introduction sources remain poorly understood. Based on phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial 16S, COI and CYTB sequences, we detected a complex introduction origin of this species, which may be from Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, Panama and Florida, USA, all pointing to a bridgehead introduction. In addition, the nursery trade between the four countries or regions and mainland China from 2011 to 2020 was also significantly higher than other areas with less likelihood of introductions, which supported the molecular results. Our study provides the first genetic evidence of the potential sources of this emerging amphibian invader in mainland China, which may help develop alien species control strategies in the face of growing trade through globalization.
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Schoeman AL, du Preez LH, Kmentová N, Vanhove MPM. A monogenean parasite reveals the widespread translocation of the African Clawed Frog in its native range. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Anneke L. Schoeman
- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North‐West University Potchefstroom South Africa
- DSI‐NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch South Africa
- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity Grahamstown South Africa
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- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North‐West University Potchefstroom South Africa
- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity Grahamstown South Africa
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- Hasselt University Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity & Toxicology, Agoralaan Gebouw D Diepenbeek Belgium
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- Hasselt University Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity & Toxicology, Agoralaan Gebouw D Diepenbeek Belgium
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Rafajlović M, Alexander JM, Butlin RK, Johannesson K. Introduction to the theme issue 'Species' ranges in the face of changing environments'. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2022; 377:20210002. [PMID: 35184596 PMCID: PMC8859519 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Understanding where, when and how species’ ranges will be modified is both a fundamental problem and essential to predicting how spatio-temporal environmental changes in abiotic and biotic factors impact biodiversity. Notably, different species may respond disparately to similar environmental changes: some species may overcome an environmental change only with difficulty or not at all, while other species may readily overcome the same change. Ranges may contract, expand or move. The drivers and consequences of this variability in species' responses remain puzzling. Importantly, changes in a species’ range creates feedbacks to the environmental conditions, populations and communities in its previous and current range, rendering population genetic, population dynamic and community processes inextricably linked. Understanding these links is critical in guiding biodiversity management and conservation efforts. This theme issue presents current thinking about the factors and mechanisms that limit and/or modify species' ranges. It also outlines different approaches to detect changes in species’ distributions, and illustrates cases of range modifications in several taxa. Overall, this theme issue highlights the urgency of understanding species' ranges but shows that we are only just beginning to disentangle the processes involved. One way forward is to unite ecology with evolutionary biology and empirical with modelling approaches. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Species’ ranges in the face of changing environments (Part II)’.
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- Marina Rafajlović
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden.,Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden.,Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.,Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, 452 96 Strömstad, Sweden
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- Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden.,Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, 452 96 Strömstad, Sweden
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Bridle J, Hoffmann A. Understanding the biology of species' ranges: when and how does evolution change the rules of ecological engagement? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2022; 377:20210027. [PMID: 35184590 PMCID: PMC8859517 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Understanding processes that limit species' ranges has been a core issue in ecology and evolutionary biology for many decades, and has become increasingly important given the need to predict the responses of biological communities to rapid environmental change. However, we still have a poor understanding of evolution at range limits and its capacity to change the ecological 'rules of engagement' that define these communities, as well as the time frame over which this occurs. Here we link papers in the current volume to some key concepts involved in the interactions between evolutionary and ecological processes at species' margins. In particular, we separate hypotheses about species' margins that focus on hard evolutionary limits, which determine how genotypes interact with their environment, from those concerned with soft evolutionary limits, which determine where and when local adaptation can persist in space and time. We show how theoretical models and empirical studies highlight conditions under which gene flow can expand local limits as well as contain them. In doing so, we emphasize the complex interplay between selection, demography and population structure throughout a species' geographical and ecological range that determines its persistence in biological communities. However, despite some impressively detailed studies on range limits, particularly in invertebrates and plants, few generalizations have emerged that can predict evolutionary responses at ecological margins. We outline some directions for future work such as considering the impact of structural genetic variants and metapopulation structure on limits, and the interaction between range limits and the evolution of mating systems and non-random dispersal. This article is part of the theme issue 'Species' ranges in the face of changing environments (Part II)'.
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- Jon Bridle
- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- School of BioSciences, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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Rafajlović M, Alexander JM, Butlin RK, Johannesson K. Preface. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2022; 377:20210491. [PMID: 35067096 PMCID: PMC8784923 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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- Marina Rafajlović
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
- Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, 452 96 Strömstad, Sweden
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- Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, 452 96 Strömstad, Sweden
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