The use of genetics for the management of a recovering population: temporal assessment of migratory peregrine falcons in North America.
Our ability to monitor populations or species that were once threatened or endangered and in the process of recovery is enhanced by using genetic methods to assess overall population stability and size over time. This can be accomplished most directly by obtaining genetic measures from temporally-sp...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:62a35c9476f8410dbb863ddc1da02320 2023-05-15T16:10:01+02:00 The use of genetics for the management of a recovering population: temporal assessment of migratory peregrine falcons in North America. Jeff A Johnson Sandra L Talbot George K Sage Kurt K Burnham Joseph W Brown Tom L Maechtle William S Seegar Michael A Yates Bud Anderson David P Mindell 2010-11-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014042 https://doaj.org/article/62a35c9476f8410dbb863ddc1da02320 EN eng Public Library of Science (PLoS) http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2987794?pdf=render https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203 1932-6203 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014042 https://doaj.org/article/62a35c9476f8410dbb863ddc1da02320 PLoS ONE, Vol 5, Iss 11, p e14042 (2010) Medicine R Science Q article 2010 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014042 2022-12-31T01:30:54Z Our ability to monitor populations or species that were once threatened or endangered and in the process of recovery is enhanced by using genetic methods to assess overall population stability and size over time. This can be accomplished most directly by obtaining genetic measures from temporally-spaced samples that reflect the overall stability of the population as given by changes in genetic diversity levels (allelic richness and heterozygosity), degree of population differentiation (F(ST) and D(EST)), and effective population size (N(e)). The primary goal of any recovery effort is to produce a long-term self-sustaining population, and these genetic measures provide a metric by which we can gauge our progress and help make important management decisions.The peregrine falcon in North America (Falco peregrinus tundrius and anatum) was delisted in 1994 and 1999, respectively, and its abundance will be monitored by the species Recovery Team every three years until 2015. Although the United States Fish and Wildlife Service makes a distinction between tundrius and anatum subspecies, our genetic results based on eleven microsatellite loci suggest limited differentiation that can be attributed to an isolation by distance relationship and warrant no delineation of these two subspecies in its northern latitudinal distribution from Alaska through Canada into Greenland. Using temporal samples collected at Padre Island, Texas during migration (seven temporal time periods between 1985-2007), no significant differences in genetic diversity or significant population differentiation in allele frequencies between time periods were observed and were indistinguishable from those obtained from tundrius/anatum breeding locations throughout their northern distribution. Estimates of harmonic mean N(e) were variable and imprecise, but always greater than 500 when employing multiple temporal genetic methods.These results, including those from simulations to assess the power of each method to estimate N(e), suggest a stable or growing ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Falco peregrinus Greenland peregrine falcon Alaska Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Canada Greenland PLoS ONE 5 11 e14042 |
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Our ability to monitor populations or species that were once threatened or endangered and in the process of recovery is enhanced by using genetic methods to assess overall population stability and size over time. This can be accomplished most directly by obtaining genetic measures from temporally-spaced samples that reflect the overall stability of the population as given by changes in genetic diversity levels (allelic richness and heterozygosity), degree of population differentiation (F(ST) and D(EST)), and effective population size (N(e)). The primary goal of any recovery effort is to produce a long-term self-sustaining population, and these genetic measures provide a metric by which we can gauge our progress and help make important management decisions.The peregrine falcon in North America (Falco peregrinus tundrius and anatum) was delisted in 1994 and 1999, respectively, and its abundance will be monitored by the species Recovery Team every three years until 2015. Although the United States Fish and Wildlife Service makes a distinction between tundrius and anatum subspecies, our genetic results based on eleven microsatellite loci suggest limited differentiation that can be attributed to an isolation by distance relationship and warrant no delineation of these two subspecies in its northern latitudinal distribution from Alaska through Canada into Greenland. Using temporal samples collected at Padre Island, Texas during migration (seven temporal time periods between 1985-2007), no significant differences in genetic diversity or significant population differentiation in allele frequencies between time periods were observed and were indistinguishable from those obtained from tundrius/anatum breeding locations throughout their northern distribution. Estimates of harmonic mean N(e) were variable and imprecise, but always greater than 500 when employing multiple temporal genetic methods.These results, including those from simulations to assess the power of each method to estimate N(e), suggest a stable or growing ... |
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The use of genetics for the management of a recovering population: temporal assessment of migratory peregrine falcons in North America. |
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The use of genetics for the management of a recovering population: temporal assessment of migratory peregrine falcons in North America. |
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The use of genetics for the management of a recovering population: temporal assessment of migratory peregrine falcons in North America. |
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The use of genetics for the management of a recovering population: temporal assessment of migratory peregrine falcons in North America. |
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The use of genetics for the management of a recovering population: temporal assessment of migratory peregrine falcons in North America. |
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use of genetics for the management of a recovering population: temporal assessment of migratory peregrine falcons in north america. |
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