Past climate changes and strong oceanographic barriers structured low‐latitude genetic relics for the golden kelp Laminaria ochroleuca

J Assis, EÁ Serrão, NC Coelho… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Drivers of intraspecific biodiversity include past climate‐driven range shifts and
contemporary ecological conditions mediating connectivity, but these are rarely integrated in …

Deep reefs are climatic refugia for genetic diversity of marine forests

J Assis, NC Coelho, T Lamy, M Valero… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Past climate‐driven range shifts shaped intraspecific diversities of species world‐wide.
Earlier studies, focused on glacial refugia, might have overlooked genetic erosion at lower …

Genetic structure of amphi-Atlantic Laminaria digitata (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) reveals a unique range-edge gene pool and suggests post-glacial colonization …

J Neiva, EA Serrão, C Paulino, L Gouveia… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In the North-east (NE) Atlantic, most intertidal fucoids and warm-temperate kelps show
unique low-latitude gene pools matching long-term climatic refugia. For cold-temperate …

Whole genome population structure of North Atlantic kelp confirms high‐latitude glacial refugia

TT Bringloe, A Fort, M Inaba, R Sulpice… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal refugia during the Last Glacial Maximum (~ 21,000 years ago) have been
hypothesized at high latitudes in the North Atlantic, suggesting marine populations persisted …

Climate‐driven range shifts explain the distribution of extant gene pools and predict future loss of unique lineages in a marine brown alga

J Assis, EA Serrao, B Claro, C Perrin… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The climate‐driven dynamics of species ranges is a critical research question in
evolutionary ecology. We ask whether present intraspecific diversity is determined by the …

Future climate change is predicted to shift long-term persistence zones in the cold-temperate kelp Laminaria hyperborea

J Assis, AV Lucas, I Bárbara, EÁ Serrão - Marine Environmental Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Global climate change is shifting species distributions worldwide. At rear edges (warmer,
low latitude range margins), the consequences of small variations in environmental …

Projected climate changes threaten ancient refugia of kelp forests in the North Atlantic

J Assis, MB Araújo, EA Serrão - Global Change Biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Intraspecific genetic variability is critical for species adaptation and evolution and yet it is
generally overlooked in projections of the biological consequences of climate change. We …

[HTML][HTML] Past climate-driven range shifts structuring intraspecific biodiversity levels of the giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) at global scales

J Assis, F Alberto, EC Macaya, N Castilho Coelho… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The paradigm of past climate-driven range shifts structuring the distribution of marine
intraspecific biodiversity lacks replication in biological models exposed to comparable …

Ocean currents shape the genetic structure of a kelp in southwestern Africa

J Assis, J Neiva, JJ Bolton, MD Rothman… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Drivers of extant population genetic structure include past climate‐driven range shifts
and vicariant events, as well as gene flow mediated by dispersal and habitat continuity …

Climate‐induced range shifts shaped the present and threaten the future genetic variability of a marine brown alga in the Northwest Pacific

XH Song, J Assis, J Zhang, X Gao… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Glaciation‐induced environmental changes during the last glacial maximum (LGM) have
strongly influenced species' distributions and genetic diversity patterns in the northern high …