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  • Invertebres Sans Frontieres: Large Scales of Connectivity of Selected Freshwater Species among Caribbean Islands

    Author(s)
    Page, Timothy J
    Torati, Lucas S
    Cook, Benjamin D
    Binderup, Andrew
    Pringle, Catherine M
    Reuschel, Silke
    Schubart, Christoph D
    Hughes, Jane M
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Hughes, Jane M.
    Cook, Benjamin D.
    Page, Tim J.
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    The freshwater fauna (crustaceans, molluscs, fish) of many tropical islands in the Caribbean and Pacific share an amphidromous life-cycle, meaning their larvae need to develop in saline conditions before returning to full freshwater as juveniles. This community dominates the freshwaters of much of the tropics, but is poorly known and at risk from development, in particular dam building. Because of the link with the sea, this process of amphidromy can theoretically lead to dispersal between different freshwater areas via the medium of the sea, which seems likely for distant oceanic islands. However, the extent and scale ...
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    The freshwater fauna (crustaceans, molluscs, fish) of many tropical islands in the Caribbean and Pacific share an amphidromous life-cycle, meaning their larvae need to develop in saline conditions before returning to full freshwater as juveniles. This community dominates the freshwaters of much of the tropics, but is poorly known and at risk from development, in particular dam building. Because of the link with the sea, this process of amphidromy can theoretically lead to dispersal between different freshwater areas via the medium of the sea, which seems likely for distant oceanic islands. However, the extent and scale of this presumed dispersal is largely unknown in the Caribbean. Recent genetic work in Puerto Rico has shown that many freshwater species have little or no population structure among different river catchments, implying high levels of connectivity within an island, while between-island structure is unknown. We used genetic techniques to infer the geographic scales of population structure of amphidromous invertebrates (a gastropod and a number of crustacean species) between distant parts of the Caribbean, in particular Puerto Rico, Panama and Trinidad. We found virtually no geographic population structure across over 2000 km of open sea for these freshwater species. This implies that they are indeed moving between islands in sea currents as larvae, meaning that continued recruitment requires a continuum of healthy habitat from the freshwater to marine environment. We further discuss the role of amphidromy and suggest its ecological and biogeographic role may be more important than previously presumed.
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    Journal Title
    Biotropica
    Volume
    45
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00900.x
    Subject
    Environmental sciences
    Biological sciences
    Biogeography and phylogeography
    Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/55328
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