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Demographic resilience of brook trout populations subjected to experimental size‐selective harvesting

Sustainable management of exploited populations benefits from integrating demographic and genetic considerations into assessments, as both play a role in determining harvest yields and population persistence. This is especially important in populations subject to size‐selective harvest, because size...

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Autores principales: Clarke, Shannon H., McCracken, Gregory R., Humphries, Shelley, Ruzzante, Daniel E., Grant, James W. A., Fraser, Dylan J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9679253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36426123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.13478
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author Clarke, Shannon H.
McCracken, Gregory R.
Humphries, Shelley
Ruzzante, Daniel E.
Grant, James W. A.
Fraser, Dylan J.
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McCracken, Gregory R.
Humphries, Shelley
Ruzzante, Daniel E.
Grant, James W. A.
Fraser, Dylan J.
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description Sustainable management of exploited populations benefits from integrating demographic and genetic considerations into assessments, as both play a role in determining harvest yields and population persistence. This is especially important in populations subject to size‐selective harvest, because size selective harvesting has the potential to result in significant demographic, life‐history, and genetic changes. We investigated harvest‐induced changes in the effective number of breeders ([Formula: see text]) for introduced brook trout populations (Salvelinus fontinalis) in alpine lakes from western Canada. Three populations were subject to 3 years of size‐selective harvesting, while three control populations experienced no harvest. The [Formula: see text] decreased consistently across all harvested populations (on average 60.8%) but fluctuated in control populations. There were no consistent changes in [Formula: see text] between control or harvest populations, but one harvest population experienced a decrease in [Formula: see text] of 63.2%. The [Formula: see text] / [Formula: see text] ratio increased consistently across harvest lakes; however we found no evidence of genetic compensation (where variance in reproductive success decreases at lower abundance) based on changes in family evenness ([Formula: see text]) and the number of full‐sibling families ([Formula: see text]). We found no relationship between [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] or between [Formula: see text] / [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. We posit that change in [Formula: see text] was buffered by constraints on breeding habitat prior to harvest, such that the same number of breeding sites were occupied before and after harvest. These results suggest that effective size in harvested populations may be resilient to considerable changes in N(c) in the short‐term, but it is still important to monitor exploited populations to assess the risk of inbreeding and ensure their long‐term survival.
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spelling pubmed-96792532022-11-23 Demographic resilience of brook trout populations subjected to experimental size‐selective harvesting Clarke, Shannon H. McCracken, Gregory R. Humphries, Shelley Ruzzante, Daniel E. Grant, James W. A. Fraser, Dylan J. Evol Appl Original Articles Sustainable management of exploited populations benefits from integrating demographic and genetic considerations into assessments, as both play a role in determining harvest yields and population persistence. This is especially important in populations subject to size‐selective harvest, because size selective harvesting has the potential to result in significant demographic, life‐history, and genetic changes. We investigated harvest‐induced changes in the effective number of breeders ([Formula: see text]) for introduced brook trout populations (Salvelinus fontinalis) in alpine lakes from western Canada. Three populations were subject to 3 years of size‐selective harvesting, while three control populations experienced no harvest. The [Formula: see text] decreased consistently across all harvested populations (on average 60.8%) but fluctuated in control populations. There were no consistent changes in [Formula: see text] between control or harvest populations, but one harvest population experienced a decrease in [Formula: see text] of 63.2%. The [Formula: see text] / [Formula: see text] ratio increased consistently across harvest lakes; however we found no evidence of genetic compensation (where variance in reproductive success decreases at lower abundance) based on changes in family evenness ([Formula: see text]) and the number of full‐sibling families ([Formula: see text]). We found no relationship between [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] or between [Formula: see text] / [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. We posit that change in [Formula: see text] was buffered by constraints on breeding habitat prior to harvest, such that the same number of breeding sites were occupied before and after harvest. These results suggest that effective size in harvested populations may be resilient to considerable changes in N(c) in the short‐term, but it is still important to monitor exploited populations to assess the risk of inbreeding and ensure their long‐term survival. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9679253/ /pubmed/36426123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.13478 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Evolutionary Applications published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Clarke, Shannon H.
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Humphries, Shelley
Ruzzante, Daniel E.
Grant, James W. A.
Fraser, Dylan J.
Demographic resilience of brook trout populations subjected to experimental size‐selective harvesting
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title_short Demographic resilience of brook trout populations subjected to experimental size‐selective harvesting
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9679253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36426123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.13478
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