Deep reefs are climatic refugia for genetic diversity of marine forests

By J. Assis, N. Coelho, T. Lamy, M. Valero, F. Alberto, E. Serrão. 2016

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Past climate‐driven range shifts shaped intraspecific diversities of species world‐wide. Earlier studies, focused on glacial refugia, might have overlooked genetic erosion at lower latitudes associated with warmer periods. For marine species able to colonize deeper waters, depth shifts might be important for local persistence, preventing some latitudinal shifts, analogous to elevational refugia in terrestrial habitats. In this study, we asked whether past latitudinal or depth range shifts explain extant gene pools in Saccorhiza polyschides, a large habitat structuring brown alga distributed from coastal to offshore deep reefs.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Genetics, Oceanography

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Upwelling areas as climate change refugia for the distribution and genetic diversity of a marine macroalga (2016, background): “nants directly or indirectly related to upwelling may be involved, including SST (Assis et al., 2015), nutrient supply”
Climate Change Impacts on Seagrass Meadows and Macroalgal Forests: An Integrative Perspective on Acclimation and Adaptation Potential (2018, background): “These models can give a first rough approximation of future distributions but they often do not take biological aspects or the eco-evolutionary responding potential of the focal species into account (but see Assis et al., 2016b).”