Southern Hemisphere coasts are biologically connected by frequent, long-distance rafting events

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Southern Hemisphere coasts are biologically connected by frequent, long-distance rafting events
المؤلفون: Ceridwen I Fraser, Ludovic Dutoit, Adele K Morrison, Luis Miguel Pardo, Stephen DA Smith, William Pearman, Elahe Parvizi, Jonathan Waters, Erasmo C Macaya
المصدر: Current Biology, (2022-03-23)
بيانات النشر: Zenodo
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Zenodo
مصطلحات موضوعية: dispersal, raft, Genotyping by Sequencing GBS, RAD-Sequencing, RAD-Seq
الوصف: Globally, species distributions are shifting in response to environmental change, and those that cannot disperse risk extinction. Many taxa, including marine species, are showing poleward range shifts as the climate warms. In the Southern Hemisphere, however, circumpolar oceanic fronts can present formidable barriers to dispersal 4 . Although passive, southward movement of species across this barrier has been considered unlikely, the recent discovery of buoyant kelp rafts on beaches in Antarctica demonstrates that such journeys are possible. Rafting is a key process by which diverse taxa – including terrestrial and coastal marine species – can cross oceans. Kelp rafts can carry passengers, and thus can act as vectors for long-distance dispersal of coastal organisms. The small numbers of kelp rafts previously found in Antarctica do not, however, shed much light on the frequency of such dispersal events. We here use a combination of high-resolution phylogenomic analyses (>220,000 SNPs) and oceanographic modelling to show that long-distance biological dispersal events in the Southern Ocean are not rare. We document tens of kelp ( Durvillaea antarctica ) rafting events of thousands of kilometres each, over several decades (1950 – 2019), with many kelp rafts apparently still reproductively viable. Modelling of dispersal trajectories from genomically-inferred source locations shows that some distant landmasses are particularly well connected, for example South Georgia and New Zealand, and the Kerguelen Islands and Tasmania. Our findings illustrate the power of genomic approaches to track, and modelling to show frequencies, of long-distance dispersal events.
نوع الوثيقة: other/unknown material
اللغة: English
Relation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6380881; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6380882; oai:zenodo.org:6380882
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6380882
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6380882
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.8D44B6DC
قاعدة البيانات: BASE