Seascape Connectivity Shapes Genetic and Species β‐Diversity in Tropical Reef Fishes
Maurine Vilcot, Thomas Keggin, Camille Albouy, Giulia F. A. Donati, Andrés Acosta‐Chaparro, Giomar H. Borrero‐Pérez, Marie‐Charlotte Cheutin, Juan David González Corredor, Régis Hocdé, Jean‐Baptiste Juhel, Virginie Marques, David Mouillot, Maria Mutis‐Martinezguerra, Andrea Polanco F., Mark J. A. Ve · 2026
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Description
Maurine Vilcot and a large international team compared reef fish diversity patterns in 2026 across the Caribbean Sea and the Western Indian Ocean, two regions with very different reef spacing. Occurrence records for five fish families supplied the species picture, and DNA markers from nineteen species supplied the genetic picture. The question was whether the two levels of diversity rise and fall together across space.
In the Western Indian Ocean, both genetic and species differences grew with distance, and the two measures correlated across species. In the Caribbean only the species level showed distance effects, and the two levels decoupled. The authors credit the Caribbean's shorter gaps between reefs, which keep populations connected. Seascape layout, they conclude, governs whether genes and species tell the same story.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maurine Vilcot, Thomas Keggin, Camille Albouy, Giulia F. A. Donati, Andrés Acosta‐Chaparro, Giomar H. Borrero‐Pérez, Marie‐Charlotte Cheutin, Juan David González Corredor, Régis Hocdé, Jean‐Baptiste Juhel, Virginie Marques, David Mouillot, Maria Mutis‐Martinezguerra, Andrea Polanco F., Mark J. A. Ve |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |