Marine Heatwave Drives Cryptic Loss of Genetic Diversity in Underwater Forests.

Abstract excerpt

Extreme events have profound ecological impacts on species and ecosystems, including range contractions and collapse of entire ecosystems. Although theory predicts that extreme events cause loss of genetic diversity, empirical demonstrations are rare, obscuring implications for future adaptive capacity of species and populations. Here, we use rare genetic data from before an extreme event to empirically...

Topics

• Extreme Heat
• Genetic Variation
• Global Warming
• Oceans and Seas
• Phaeophyceae
• Sargassum
• Seaweed
• Western Australia