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Allometric trajectories of body and head morphology in three sympatric Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus (L.)) morphs
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-08)
A study of body and head development in three sympatric reproductively isolated Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus (L.)) morphs from a subarctic lake (Skogsfjordvatn, northern Norway) revealed allometric trajectories that resulted in morphological differences. The three morphs were ecologically assigned to a littoral omnivore, a profundal benthivore and a profundal piscivore, and this was confirmed ...
Parallel and non-parallel morphological divergence among foraging specialists in European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Parallel phenotypic evolution occurs when independent populations evolve similar traits in response to similar selective regimes. However, populations inhabiting similar environments also frequently show some phenotypic differences
that result from non-parallel evolution. In this study, we quantified the relative importance of parallel evolution to similar foraging regimes and nonparallel lake-specific ...
Invader population speeds up life history during colonization
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
We explore the long-term developments in population biology and life history during the invasion and establishment of the fish species vendace Coregonus albula in a subarctic watercourse by comparing life-history traits and molecular genetic estimates between the source and the colonist population. The two populations exhibited highly contrasting life-history strategies. Relative to the source ...
Sympatric diversification as influenced by ecological opportunity and historical contingency in a young species lineage of whitefish
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2010)
In adaptive radiations, ecological opportunity (i.e. niche availability) is considered to be an important driver to increase phenotypic variation, but diversity may also be constrained by historical factors related to colonization events.
How do ecological opportunity and post-glacial colonization history affect the phenotypic diversity in a young species lineage?
We quantified phenotypic diversity ...
Speciation reversal in European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus (L.)) caused by competitor invasion
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Invasion of exotic species has caused the loss of biodiversity and imparts evolutionary and ecological changes in the
introduced systems. In northern Fennoscandia, European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus (L.)) is a highly polymorphic species
displaying adaptive radiations into partially reproductively isolated and thus genetically differentiated sympatric morphs
utilizing the planktivorous and ...
Ecological speciation in postglacial European whitefish: rapid adaptive radiations into the littoral, pelagic, and profundal lake habitats
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Understanding how a monophyletic lineage of a species diverges into several adaptive forms has received increased attention in recent years, but the underlying mechanisms in this process are still under debate. Postglacial fishes are
excellent model organisms for exploring this process, especially the initial stages of ecological speciation, as postglacial lakes represent replicated discrete ...
Discrete foraging niches promote ecological, phenotypic, and genetic divergence in sympatric whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Natural populations often vary in their degree of ecological, morphological and genetic divergence. This variation can be arranged along an ecological speciation continuum of increasingly discrete variation, with high inter-individual variation at one end and well defined species in the other. In postglacial fishes, evolutionary divergence has commonly resulted in the co-occurrence of a pelagic and ...
From clear lakes to murky waters – tracing the functional response of high-latitude lake communities to concurrent ‘greening’ and ‘browning’
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-21)
Climate change and the intensification of land use practices are causing widespread eutrophication of subarctic lakes. The implications of this rapid change for lake ecosystem function remain poorly understood. To assess how freshwater communities respond to such profound changes in their habitat and resource availability, we conducted a space‐for‐time analysis of food‐web structure in 30 lakes ...
Allelic losses and gains during translocations of a high conservation value fish, Coregonus lavaretus
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-09)
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<li>The use of translocations to establish new or ‘refuge’ populations for species with high conservation value is controversial but widely used in conservation management. One of the risks of this approach is that an establishing population does not adequately capture the genetic diversity of the donor gene pool. This effect, rarely examined, is tested here.</li>
<li>In this study ...
Geographic hierarchical population genetic structuring in British European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) and its implications for conservation
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-04)
The European whitefish <i>Coregonus lavaretus</i> complex represents one of the most diverse radiations within salmonids, with extreme morphological and genetic differentiation across its range. Such variation has led to the assignment of many populations to separate species. In Great Britain, the seven native populations of <i>C. lavaretus</i> (two in Scotland, four in England, one in Wales) were ...