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- Title
Stability of genetic diversity in an intertidal goby population after exposure to tsunami disturbance.
- Authors
Hirase, Shotaro; Ikeda, Minoru; Hayasaka, Shun; Iwasaki, Wataru; Kijima, Akihiro
- Abstract
Massive tsunami disturbances have potentially detrimental effects on genetic diversity and effective population size of coastal marine species, and evaluating these effects can be useful for devising conservation strategies for coastal marine environments. Local populations of the intertidal goby Chaenogobius annularis, which are distributed on scattered rocky beaches of the Japanese Archipelago, show demographic independence without overlapping generations, making this an ideal species with which to study the effects of tsunami disturbance on genetic diversity. Some of these populations were affected by the tsunami of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake. Here, we investigated the change in genetic diversity of a local population of this species, which was located close to the epicenter of the earthquake, across the cohorts before and after the tsunami and evaluated the impact of the tsunami disturbance. Genetic diversity was maintained after the tsunami, and no change in the effective population size was observed. Our results suggest that the tsunami disturbance has had no marked impact on the genetic diversity of C. annularis.
- Subjects
TSUNAMIS -- Environmental aspects; MARINE ecology; ECOLOGICAL disturbances; GOBIIDAE; MARINE species diversity; MARINE biodiversity
- Publication
Marine Ecology, 2016, Vol 37, Issue 5, p1161
- ISSN
0173-9565
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/maec.12377