Genetic monitoring: Development of tools for conservation and management
Principal Investigators:
Fred W. Allendorf, and Michael K. Schwartz
Genetic monitoring has the potential to become a valuable tool for the management and conservation of populations. Recent rapid advances in molecular genetic techniques make it relatively easy and inexpensive to quantify temporal changes in the genetics of populations over tens or even hundreds of years. However, it is currently unknown under what circumstances genetic monitoring would provide valuable information or what genetic data are required for effective genetic monitoring. We propose a working group that will address these issues in order... more
Genetic monitoring has the potential to become a valuable tool for the management and conservation of populations. Recent rapid advances in molecular genetic techniques make it relatively easy and inexpensive to quantify temporal changes in the genetics of populations over tens or even hundreds of years. However, it is currently unknown under what circumstances genetic monitoring would provide valuable information or what genetic data are required for effective genetic monitoring. We propose a working group that will address these issues in order to provide guidance for resource managers and policy makers. We will also evaluate the potential for using genetic monitoring of candidate genes likely to be affected by climate change and other forms of stress in order to understand evolutionary responses to environmental changes. The results of this working group will be rigorous and practical guidelines for the design of genetic monitoring strategies and should lead to improved assessments of population trends and evolutionary processes.
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Participants and Meetings
Working Group Participants
| Activity | Dates | Further Information |
|---|---|---|
| Working Group | 10th—14th March 2008 | Participant List |
| Working Group | 24th—27th February 2009 | Participant List |
Participant Contact Information
| Fred W. Allendorf | fred.allendorf@umontana.edu | University of Montana |
| C. Scott Baker | scott.baker@oregonstate.edu | Oregon State University |
| Michael M. Hansen | mmh@difres.dk | Technical University of Denmark |
| Jennifer Jackson | jennifer.jackson@oregonstate.edu | Oregon State University |
| Katherine C. Kendall | kkendall@usgs.gov | US Geological Survey (USGS) Glacier Field Station |
| Linda Laikre | linda.laikre@popgen.su.se | Stockholm University |
| Kevin S. McKelvey | kmckelvey@fs.fed.us | USDA Forest Service |
| Brad H. McRae | University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| Maile C. Neel | mneel@umd.edu | University of Maryland |
| Isabelle M. Olivieri | isabelle.Olivieri@univ-montp2.fr | Université de Montpellier II |
| Nils Ryman | nils.ryman@popgen.su.se | Stockholm University |
| Michael K. Schwartz | mkschwartz@fs.fed.us | USDA Forest Service |
| Ruth Shortbull | ruth.shortbull@umontana.edu | University of Montana |
| Jeffrey Stetz | jstetz@usgs.gov | University of Montana |
| David Tallmon | david.tallmon@uas.alaska.edu | University of Alaska |
| Barbara L. Taylor | barbara.taylor@noaa.gov | NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center |
| Christina Vojta | cvojta@fs.fed.us | USDA Forest Service |
| Donald M. Waller | dmwaller@wisc.edu | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Robin S. Waples | robin.waples@noaa.gov | NOAA, Northwest Fisheries Science Center |
| Dave Gregovitch | dave.gregovich@noaa.gov | NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center |
Products: Publications, Reports, Datasets, Presentations, Visualizations
| Type | Products of NCEAS Research |
|---|---|
| Presentations | Allendorf, Fred W. 2007. Monitoring genetic change in natural populations. Ecological Society of Australia, Annual Meeting, November 2007. Perth, Western Australia. |
| Presentations | Allendorf, Fred W. 2010. Genetic monitoring of natural populations. Recent Advances in Conservation Genetics, February 2010. White Oak, Florida. |
| Presentations | Allendorf, Fred W. 2011. An introduction to genetic monitoring. British Antarctic Survey. Cambridge, UK. |
| Presentations | Allendorf, Fred W. 2011. Genetic monitoring, the wildlife point of view. GLOBALDIV Workshop. Lausanne, Switzerland. |
| Journal Article | Hansen, Michael M.; Fraser, Dylan J.; Meier, Kristian; Mensberg, Karen-Lise D. 2009. Sixty years of anthropogenic pressure: A spatio-temporal genetic analysis of brown trout populations subject to stocking and population declines. Molecular Ecology. Vol: 18(12). Pages 2549-2562. (Online version) |
| Journal Article | Hansen, Michael M.; Olivieri, Isabelle M.; Waller, Donald M.; Nielson, E. E. 2012. Monitoring adaptive genetic responses to environmental change. Molecular Ecology. Vol: 21(6). Pages 1311-1329. (Online version) |
| Journal Article | Jackson, Jennifer; Laikre, Linda; Baker, C. Scott; Kendall, Katherine C. 2012. Guidelines for collecting and maintaining archives for genetic monitoring. Conservation Genetics Resources. Vol: 4(2). Pages 527-536. (Online version) |
| Journal Article | Joost, Stephane; Colli, Licia; Bonin, Aurelie; Biebach, Iris; Allendorf, Fred W.; Hoffmann, Irene; Hanotte, Olivier; Taberlet, Pierre; Consortium, Globaldiv. 2011. Promoting collaboration between livestock and wildlife conservation genetics communities. (Online version) |
| Presentations | Laikre, Linda. 2009. Who cares about the genes? Genetic diversity is neglected in international conservation policy.. ESF Conservation Genetics Conference. Trondheim. |
| Journal Article | Laikre, Linda; Schwartz, Mark W.; Waples, Robin S.; Ryman, Nils. 2010. Compromising genetic diversity in the wild: Unmonitored large-scale release of plants and animals. Vol: 25(9). Pages 520-529. (Online version) |
| Journal Article | Laikre, Linda. 2010. Genetic diversity is overlooked in international conservation policy implementation. Conservation Genetics. Vol: 11(2). Pages 349-354. (Online version) |
| Journal Article | Laikre, Linda; Allendorf, Fred W.; Aroner, Laurel C.; Baker, C. Scott; Gregovitch, Dave; Hansen, Michael M.; Jackson, Jennifer; Kendall, Katherine C.; McKelvey, Kevin S.; Neel, Maile C.; Olivieri, Isabelle M.; Ryman, Nils; Schwartz, Michael K.; Shortbull, Ruth; Stetz, Jeffrey; Tallmon, David; Taylor, Barbara L.; Vojta, Christina; Waller, Donald M.; Waples, Robin S. 2010. Neglect of genetic diversity in implementation of the convention on biological diversity. Conservation Biology. Vol: 24(1). Pages 86-88. (Online version) |
| Presentations | Laikre, Linda. 2010. Targets and indicators for monitoring genetic variation for resilience and future adaptation. . Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Nagoya, Japan. |
| Journal Article | Luikart, Gordon; Ryman, Nils; Tallmon, David; Schwartz, Michael K.; Allendorf, Fred W. 2010. Estimation of census and effective population sizes: The increasing usefulness of DNA-based approaches. Conservation Genetics. Vol: 11(2). Pages 355-373. (Online version) |
| Journal Article | Neel, Maile C.; McKelvey, Kevin S.; Ryman, Nils; Lloyd, Michael W.; Shortbull, Ruth; Allendorf, Fred W.; Schwartz, Michael K.; Waples, Robin S. 2013. Estimation of effective population size in continuously distributed populations: There goes the neighborhood. Heredity. Pages 1-11. (Online version) |
| Journal Article | Noel, Florence; Maurice, Sandrine; Mignot, Agnes; Glemin, Sylvain; Carbonell, David; Justy, Fabienne; Guyot, Isabelle; Olivieri, Isabelle M.; Petit, Christophe. 2010. Interaction of climate, demography and genetics: A ten-year study of Brassica insularis, a narrow endemic Mediterranean species. Conservation Genetics. Vol: 11(2). Pages 509-526. (Online version) |
| Journal Article | Palmé, Anna; Laikre, Linda; Ryman, Nils. 2013. Monitoring reveals two genetically distinct brown trout populations remaining in stable sympatry over 20 years in tiny mountain lakes. Conservation Genetics. Vol: 14. Pages 795-808. (Online version) |
| Journal Article | Ryman, Nils; Allendorf, Fred W.; Jorde, Per Erik; Laikre, Linda; Hössjers, Ola. 2014. Samples from subdivided populations yield biased estimates of effective size that overestimate the rate of loss of genetic variation. Molecular Ecology Resources. Vol: 14. Pages 87-99. (Online version) |
| Presentations | Schwartz, Michael K. 2008. Genetic monitoring of carnivores. Grimso Biological Field Station, February 2008. Sweden. |
| Presentations | Schwartz, Michael K. 2009. How well do effective population size estimators reflect changes in abundance. International Marine Conservation Congress, May 2009. Washington D.C.. |
| Dissertation or Thesis | Shortbull, Ruth. 2010. The importance of multiple study areas in landscape genetics: The American black bear in the Rocky Mountains. Organismal Biology and Ecology, University of Montana. |
| Dissertation or Thesis | Stetz, Jeffrey. 2008. Monitoring grizzly bear populations with bear rub tree surveys. Wildlife Biology, University of Montana. |
| Journal Article | Stetz, Jeffrey; Kendall, Katherine C.; Vojta, Christina. 2011. Genetic monitoring for managers: A new online resource. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. Vol: 2(2). Pages 216-219. |
| Presentations | Tallmon, David; Gregovich, Dave; Waples, Robin S.; Baker, C. Scott; Jackson, Jennifer; Allendorf, Fred W.; Schwartz, Michael K. 2009. When are genetic methods useful to estimate contemporary abundance and population growth?. Society for the Study of Evolution. Moscow. |
| Journal Article | Tallmon, David; Gregovitch, Dave; Waples, Robin S.; Baker, C. Scott; Jackson, Jennifer; Taylor, Barbara L.; Archer, Eric; Martien, Karen; Allendorf, Fred W.; Schwartz, Michael K. 2010. When are genetic methods useful for estimating contemporary abundance and detecting population trends?. Molecular Ecology Resources. Vol: 10(4). Pages 684-692. |
| Journal Article | Tallmon, David; Waples, Robin S.; Gregovich, Dave; Schwartz, Michael K. 2012. Detecting population recovery using gametic disequilibrium-based effective population size estimates. Conservation Genetics Resources. Vol: 4(4). Pages 987-989. |
| Journal Article | Waples, Robin S.; Faulkner, James R. 2009. Modelling evolutionary processes in small populations: Not as ideal as you think. Vol: 18. Pages 1834-1847. (Online version) |
| Journal Article | Waples, Robin S.; Do, Chi. 2010. Linkage disequilibrium estimates of contemporary Ne using highly variable genetic markers: A largely untapped resource for applied conservation and evolution. Evolutionary Applications. Vol: 3. Pages 244-262. |
| Journal Article | Waples, Robin S. 2010. Spatial-temporal stratifications in natural populations and how they affect understanding and estimation of effective population size. Molecular Ecology Resources. Vol: 10(5). Pages 785-796. (Online version) |
| Journal Article | Waples, Robin S.; England, Phillip R. 2011. Estimating contemporary effective population size on the basis of linkage disequilibrium in the face of migration. Genetics. Vol: 189(2). Pages 633-644. (Online version) |
| Journal Article | Waples, Robin S.; Antao, Tiago; Luikart, Gordon. 2014. Effects of overlapping generations on linkage disequilibrium estimates of effective population size. Genetics. Vol: 197(2). Pages 769-780. |
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"Genetic monitoring: Development of tools for conservation and management" is project ID: 12140