- Title
- "Nested" cryptic diversity in a widespread marine ecosystem engineer: a challenge for detecting biological invasions
- Creator
- Teske, Peter R, Ruis, Marc, McQuaid, Christopher D, Styan, Craig A, Piggott, Maxine P, Benhissoune, Saïd, Fuentes-Grünewald, Claudio, Walls, Kathy, Page, Mike, Attard, Catherine R M, Cooke, Georgina M, McClusky, Claire F, Banks, Sam C, Barker, Nigel P, Beheregaray, Luciano B
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/445529
- Identifier
- vital:74396
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-176
- Description
- Ecosystem engineers facilitate habitat formation and enhance biodiversity, but when they become invasive, they present a critical threat to native communities because they can drastically alter the receiving habitat. Management of such species thus needs to be a priority, but the poorly resolved taxonomy of many ecosystem engineers represents a major obstacle to correctly identifying them as being either native or introduced. We address this dilemma by studying the sea squirt Pyura stolonifera, an important ecosystem engineer that dominates coastal communities particularly in the southern hemisphere. Using DNA sequence data from four independently evolving loci, we aimed to determine levels of cryptic diversity, the invasive or native status of each regional population, and the most appropriate sampling design for identifying the geographic ranges of each evolutionary unit.
- Format
- 13 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- BMC Evolutionary Biology, Teske, P.R., Rius, M., McQuaid, C.D., Styan, C.A., Piggott, M.P., Benhissoune, S., Fuentes-Grünewald, C., Walls, K., Page, M., Attard, C.R. and Cooke, G.M., 2011. " Nested" cryptic diversity in a widespread marine ecosystem engineer: a challenge for detecting biological invasions. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11, pp.1-13, BMC Evolutionary Biology volume 11 number 1 1 13 2011 1365-294X
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Barker, Nigel Paul (Dr)
RU Department of Botany
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Marine Ecosystems and Resources
McQuaid, Christopher D (Distinguished Professor)
SDG 15. Life On Land
RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
SDG 14. Life Below Water
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