Refining and defining riverscape genetics: How rivers influence population genetic structure

CD Davis, CW Epps, RL Flitcroft… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional analysis in population genetics evaluates differences among groups of
individuals and, in some cases, considers the effects of distance or potential barriers to gene …

How large is a river? Conceptualizing river landscape signatures and envelopes in four dimensions

AM Gurnell, W Bertoldi, K Tockner… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
River research often addresses the influence of anthropogenic and natural processes on the
ecological, hydrological, and geomorphological dynamics of river systems. However, here …

Riverscape genomics of a threatened fish across a hydroclimatically heterogeneous river basin

CJ Brauer, MP Hammer, LB Beheregaray - Molecular Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how natural selection generates and maintains adaptive genetic diversity in
heterogeneous environments is key to predicting the evolutionary response of populations …

The architecture of river networks can drive the evolutionary dynamics of aquatic populations

AT Thomaz, MR Christie, LL Knowles - Evolution, 2016 - academic.oup.com
It is widely recognized that physical landscapes can shape genetic variation within and
between populations. However, it is not well understood how riverscapes, with their complex …

The emblematic minnows of the North American Great Plains: a synthesis of threats and conservation opportunities

TA Worthington, AA Echelle, JS Perkin… - Fish and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic changes to the Great Plains rivers of North America have had a large,
negative effect on a reproductive guild of pelagic‐broadcast spawning (PBS) cyprinid fishes …

Which species, how many, and from where: Integrating habitat suitability, population genomics, and abundance estimates into species reintroduction planning

EW Malone, JS Perkin, BM Leckie… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Extirpated organisms are reintroduced into their former ranges worldwide to combat species
declines and biodiversity losses. The growing field of reintroduction biology provides …

Riverscape genomics of the endangered freshwater mussel Lampsilis rafinesqueana

SR Hein, K Farleigh, DJ Berg - Freshwater Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Historical periods of rapid climate change and associated direct and indirect impacts such
as glaciation and restructuring of drainage systems are important in sha** biodiversity …

Past and Present Environmental Factors Differentially Influence Genetic and Morphological Traits of Italian Barbels (Pisces: Cyprinidae)

S Quadroni, V De Santis, A Carosi, I Vanetti, S Zaccara… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity can lead to environment-related morphological
and genetic variations in freshwater fish. Studying the responses of fish to environmental …

Life history theory predicts long-term fish assemblage response to stream impoundment

JS Perkin, NE Knorp, TC Boersig… - Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
Life history theory predictions for hydrologic filtering of fish assemblages are rarely tested
with historical time series data. We retrospectively analyzed flow regime and fish …

Broad-scale sampling of primary freshwater fish populations reveals the role of intrinsic traits, inter-basin connectivity, drainage area and latitude on sha** …

C Sousa-Santos, JI Robalo, AM Pereira, P Branco… - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
Background. Worldwide predictions suggest that up to 75% of the freshwater fish species
occurring in rivers with reduced discharge could be extinct by 2070 due to the combined …