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Demographic mechanisms underpinning genetic assimilation of remnant groups of a large carnivore

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, September 2016
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Title
Demographic mechanisms underpinning genetic assimilation of remnant groups of a large carnivore
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, September 2016
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2016.1467
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Nate Mikle, Tabitha A. Graves, Ryan Kovach, Katherine C. Kendall, Amy C. Macleod

Abstract

Current range expansions of large terrestrial carnivores are occurring following human-induced range contraction. Contractions are often incomplete, leaving small remnant groups in refugia throughout the former range. Little is known about the underlying ecological and evolutionary processes that influence how remnant groups are affected during range expansion. We used data from a spatially explicit, long-term genetic sampling effort of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE), USA, to identify the demographic processes underlying spatial and temporal patterns of genetic diversity. We conducted parentage analysis to evaluate how reproductive success and dispersal contribute to spatio-temporal patterns of genetic diversity in remnant groups of grizzly bears existing in the southwestern (SW), southeastern (SE) and east-central (EC) regions of the NCDE. A few reproductively dominant individuals and local inbreeding caused low genetic diversity in peripheral regions that may have persisted for multiple generations before eroding rapidly (approx. one generation) during population expansion. Our results highlight that individual-level genetic and reproductive dynamics play critical roles during genetic assimilation, and show that spatial patterns of genetic diversity on the leading edge of an expansion may result from historical demographic patterns that are highly ephemeral.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 46 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 35%
Student > Master 7 15%
Researcher 7 15%
Other 5 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 4 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 30 65%
Environmental Science 6 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Chemical Engineering 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 5 11%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 November 2018.
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