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The DNA of coral reef biodiversity: predicting and protecting genetic diversity of reef assemblages.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 27 Apr 2016
Selkoe Kimberly A, Gaggiotti Oscar E, Treml Eric A, Wren Johanna L K, Donovan Mary K, Toonen Robert J
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Conservation of ecological communities requires deepening our understanding of genetic diversity patterns and drivers at community-wide scales. Here, we use seascape genetic analysis of a diversity metric, allelic richness (AR), for 47 reef species sampled across 13 Hawaiian Islands to empirically demonstrate that large reefs high in coral cover harbour the greatest genetic diversity on average. We found that a...
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