Still time for action: genetic conservation of imperiled South Canadian River fishes, Arkansas River Shiner (Notropis girardi), Peppered Chub (Macrhybopsis tetranema) and …

MJ Osborne, JL Hatt, EI Gilbert, SR Davenport - Conservation Genetics, 2021 - Springer
Pelagic broadcast spawning cyprinids have declined throughout the North American Great
Plains because of adverse habitat changes caused by river fragmentation and altered flow …

Comparing the Utility of Microsatellites and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Conservation Genetics: Insights from a Study on Two Freshwater Fish Species in …

JG Prunier, C Veyssière, G Loot, S Blanchet - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biodiversity is facing an unprecedented crisis and substantial efforts are needed to conserve
natural populations, especially in river ecosystems. The use of molecular tools to guide …

Spatial Patterns of Neutral and Functional Genetic Variations along Dendritic Networks of Riverscape in Brown Trout Populations

L Gouthier, E Duval, S Blanchet, G Loot, C Veyssière… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Understanding how environmental gradients shape the spatial patterns of intraspecific
genetic diversity is a central issue in ecological and evolutionary sciences. In riverine …

Genetic-based inference of densities, effective and census sizes of expanding riverine meta-populations of an invasive large-bodied freshwater fish (Silurus glanis L.).

I Paz-Vinas, G Loot, S Bouletreau, M Chiarello… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Effective (Ne) and census (Nc) population sizes are key eco-evolutionary parameters. Jointly
estimating them have an important practical value for efficient conservation and wildlife …

Evolutionary management of brown trout intraspecific diversity

D Folio - 2022 - theses.hal.science
Contemporary patterns of diversity are often the result of allopatric evolution driven by either
adaptive or non-adaptive processes. The admixture of previously isolated gene pools …

The impacts of dam construction and removal on the genetics of recovering steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) populations across the Elwha river watershed. Genes …

AK Fraik, JR McMillan, M Liermann, T Bennett… - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Dam construction and longitudinal river habitat fragmentation disrupt important life histories
and movement of aquatic species. This is especially true for Oncorhynchus mykiss that …

From the woods to the halls of science: Louis Bernatchez's contributions to science, wildlife conservation and people

AL Ferchaud, M Laporte… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
1106| FERCHAUD Et Al. childhood community of Lac-Frontière, something he never
imagined would happen. It was at around this time that Louis had made a decision, and that …

Phenotypic variation among silverside populations (Atherinopsidae: Atherinella brasiliensis) from distinct environments in Northeastern Brazil

RC Gurgel-Lourenço, CAS Rodrigues-Filho… - Zoology, 2022 - Elsevier
The successful adaptation of populations to a wide range of environments is a central topic
in ecology. Based on the assumption that body shape may affect survival, we evaluated to …

Parasite gene flow in riverine habitats: ascertaining the roles of stream drift, river bifurcations and host dispersal

MJ Janecka - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Determining the factors that shape parasite gene flow across complex landscapes is central
to understanding the coevolutionary process. In rivers, unidirectional currents, stream drift …

Stress-resistance traits disrupt the plant economics-decomposition relationship across environmental gradients in salt marshes

D De Battisti, MP Berg, B Walter, MS Fowler… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding how plants respond to environmental gradients and influence ecosystem
functions remains a core challenge in ecology. Across species and ecosystems, plants have …