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Taberlet P, Zimmermann NE, Englisch T, Tribsch A, Holderegger R, Alvarez N, Niklfeld H, Coldea G, Mirek Z, Moilanen A, Ahlmer W, Marsan PA, Bona E, Bovio M, Choler P, Cieślak E, Colli L, Cristea V, Dalmas J, Frajman B, Garraud L, Gaudeul M, Gielly L, Gutermann W, Jogan N, Kagalo AA, Korbecka G, Küpfer P, Lequette B, Letz DR, Manel S, Mansion G, Marhold K, Martini F, Negrini R, Niño F, Paun O, Pellecchia M, Perico G, Piękoś‐Mirkowa H, Prosser F, Puşcaş M, Ronikier M, Scheuerer M, Schneeweiss GM, Schönswetter P, Schratt‐Ehrendorfer L, Schüpfer F, Selvaggi A, Steinmann K, Thiel‐Egenter C, Loo M, Winkler M, Wohlgemuth T, Wraber T, Gugerli F. Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities. Ecol Lett 2012; 15:1439-48. [DOI: 10.1111/ele.12004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2012] [Revised: 08/15/2012] [Accepted: 08/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Pierre Taberlet
- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine CNRS UMR 5553 Université Joseph Fourier BP 43 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 France
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- WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Faculty Centre of Biodiversity University of Vienna Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
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- Faculty Centre of Biodiversity University of Vienna Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
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- WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Botanique Evolutive Université de Neuchâtel 11, rue Emile‐Argand 2007 Neuchâtel Switzerland
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- Faculty Centre of Biodiversity University of Vienna Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
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- Institute of Biological Research Str. Republicii nr. 48 400015 Cluj‐Napoca Romania
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- Institute of Botany Polish Academy of Sciences Lubicz 46 31‐512 Kraków Poland
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- Department of Biosciences P.O. Box 65 (Biocenter III) FI‐00014 University of Helsinki Finland
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- University of Regensburg Institute of Botany 93040 Regensburg Germany
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- Biodiversity and ancient DNA Research Center – BioDNA – and Institute of Zootechnics Università Cattolica del S. Cuore via E. Parmense, 84 29122 Piacenza Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia Università di Trieste Via L. Giorgieri 10 34127 Trieste Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia Università di Trieste Via L. Giorgieri 10 34127 Trieste Italy
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine CNRS UMR 5553 Université Joseph Fourier BP 43 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 France
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- Institute of Botany Polish Academy of Sciences Lubicz 46 31‐512 Kraków Poland
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- Biodiversity and ancient DNA Research Center – BioDNA – and Institute of Zootechnics Università Cattolica del S. Cuore via E. Parmense, 84 29122 Piacenza Italy
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- Conservatoire Botanique National Alpin ‐ CBNA Domaine de Charance 05000 Gap France
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- Univerza v Ljubljani Oddelek za biologijo BF Večna pot 111 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia
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- Conservatoire Botanique National Alpin ‐ CBNA Domaine de Charance 05000 Gap France
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine CNRS UMR 5553 Université Joseph Fourier BP 43 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 France
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine CNRS UMR 5553 Université Joseph Fourier BP 43 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 France
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- Faculty Centre of Biodiversity University of Vienna Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
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- Univerza v Ljubljani Oddelek za biologijo BF Večna pot 111 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia
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- Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians N.A.S. of Ukraine 4 Kozelnitska str. 79026 Lviv Ukraine
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- Institute of Botany Polish Academy of Sciences Lubicz 46 31‐512 Kraków Poland
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- Laboratoire de Botanique Evolutive Université de Neuchâtel 11, rue Emile‐Argand 2007 Neuchâtel Switzerland
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- Parc national du Mercantour 23 rue d'Italie, BP 1316 06006 Nice Cedex 1 France
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- Institute of Botany of Slovak Academy of Sciences Department of Vascular Plant Taxonomy Dúbravská cesta 9 845 23 Bratislava Slovakia
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine CNRS UMR 5553 Université Joseph Fourier BP 43 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 France
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- Laboratoire de Botanique Evolutive Université de Neuchâtel 11, rue Emile‐Argand 2007 Neuchâtel Switzerland
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- Institute of Botany of Slovak Academy of Sciences Department of Vascular Plant Taxonomy Dúbravská cesta 9 845 23 Bratislava Slovakia
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- Dipartimento di Biologia Università di Trieste Via L. Giorgieri 10 34127 Trieste Italy
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- Biodiversity and ancient DNA Research Center – BioDNA – and Institute of Zootechnics Università Cattolica del S. Cuore via E. Parmense, 84 29122 Piacenza Italy
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- Medias‐France/IRD CNES ‐ BPi 2102, 18, Av. Edouard Belin F‐31401 Toulouse Cedex 9 France
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- Faculty Centre of Biodiversity University of Vienna Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
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- Biodiversity and ancient DNA Research Center – BioDNA – and Institute of Zootechnics Università Cattolica del S. Cuore via E. Parmense, 84 29122 Piacenza Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia Università di Trieste Via L. Giorgieri 10 34127 Trieste Italy
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- Babes‐Bolyai University 400015 Cluj‐Napoca Romania
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- Institute of Botany Polish Academy of Sciences Lubicz 46 31‐512 Kraków Poland
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- University of Regensburg Institute of Botany 93040 Regensburg Germany
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- Faculty Centre of Biodiversity University of Vienna Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
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- Laboratoire de Botanique Evolutive Université de Neuchâtel 11, rue Emile‐Argand 2007 Neuchâtel Switzerland
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- Istituto per le Piante da Legno e l'Ambiente c.so Casale, 476 10132 Torino Italy
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- WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Faculty Centre of Biodiversity University of Vienna Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
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- Faculty Centre of Biodiversity University of Vienna Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
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- WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Univerza v Ljubljani Oddelek za biologijo BF Večna pot 111 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia
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- WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
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Largo E, Gaillard JM, Festa-Bianchet M, Toïgo C, Bassano B, Cortot H, Farny G, Lequette B, Gauthier D, Martinot JP. Can ground counts reliably monitor ibex Capra ibex populations. Wildlife Biology 2008. [DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396-14.4.489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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Fabbri E, Miquel C, Lucchini V, Santini A, Caniglia R, Duchamp C, Weber JM, Lequette B, Marucco F, Boitani L, Fumagalli L, Taberlet P, Randi E. From the Apennines to the Alps: colonization genetics of the naturally expanding Italian wolf (Canis lupus) population. Mol Ecol 2007; 16:1661-71. [PMID: 17402981 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2007.03262.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Wolves in Italy strongly declined in the past and were confined south of the Alps since the turn of the last century, reduced in the 1970s to approximately 100 individuals surviving in two fragmented subpopulations in the central-southern Apennines. The Italian wolves are presently expanding in the Apennines, and started to recolonize the western Alps in Italy, France and Switzerland about 16 years ago. In this study, we used a population genetic approach to elucidate some aspects of the wolf recolonization process. DNA extracted from 3068 tissue and scat samples collected in the Apennines (the source populations) and in the Alps (the colony), were genotyped at 12 microsatellite loci aiming to assess (i) the strength of the bottleneck and founder effects during the onset of colonization; (ii) the rates of gene flow between source and colony; and (iii) the minimum number of colonizers that are needed to explain the genetic variability observed in the colony. We identified a total of 435 distinct wolf genotypes, which showed that wolves in the Alps: (i) have significantly lower genetic diversity (heterozygosity, allelic richness, number of private alleles) than wolves in the Apennines; (ii) are genetically distinct using pairwise F(ST) values, population assignment test and Bayesian clustering; (iii) are not in genetic equilibrium (significant bottleneck test). Spatial autocorrelations are significant among samples separated up to c. 230 km, roughly correspondent to the apparent gap in permanent wolf presence between the Alps and north Apennines. The estimated number of first-generation migrants indicates that migration has been unidirectional and male-biased, from the Apennines to the Alps, and that wolves in southern Italy did not contribute to the Alpine population. These results suggest that: (i) the Alps were colonized by a few long-range migrating wolves originating in the north Apennine subpopulation; (ii) during the colonization process there has been a moderate bottleneck; and (iii) gene flow between sources and colonies was moderate (corresponding to 1.25-2.50 wolves per generation), despite high potential for dispersal. Bottleneck simulations showed that a total of c. 8-16 effective founders are needed to explain the genetic diversity observed in the Alps. Levels of genetic diversity in the expanding Alpine wolf population, and the permanence of genetic structuring, will depend on the future rates of gene flow among distinct wolf subpopulation fragments.
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- Elena Fabbri
- Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica (INFS) Via Cà Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano Emilia (BO), Italy
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We studied mate choice in the wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans, using data from 32 years of banding returns in the population of the Crozet Islands. We studied mating choices in a single year, when the Crozet Islands population was male biased (8:5, males:females). Thus, we expected that females might show great flexibility of choice of partners. Because age and experience might influence mate choice, we tested the expectation that females would choose the oldest and most experienced males for pair bonding. Pair bonds usually last until one member of the pair dies (0.3% of the birds 'divorce'), so mate choice should be especially important. We found that the ages of males and females in both displaying and bonded (breeding) pairs were significantly correlated. These age-associated pairings were not a passive phenomenon, but appeared to be due to an active process of selection of mates of similar age. First-time breeders sought mates of similar age, but preferred those with the most experience. Remating, experienced birds whose mates had died did not pair with individuals of significantly similar age, but predominantly paired with other widowed birds that, on average, were also relatively old. Mate fidelity in wandering albatrosses may be due to the cost of finding and bonding with a new mate. Pair bonds, and thus breeding, took an average of 3.2 and 2.3 years to establish, for males and females, respectively. Thus, remating exerts a potential average reproductive cost of about 15% of lifetime reproductive success. Copyright 1999 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
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- P Jouventin
- Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
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Poulle ML, Carles L, Lequette B. Significance of ungulates in the diet of recently settled wolfes in the Mercantour mountains (southeastern France). revec 1997. [DOI: 10.3406/revec.1997.2238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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