Divergent Population Structure in Five Common Rockfish Species of Puget Sound, WA Suggests the Need for Species-Specific Management.

ABSTRACT: Quantifying connectivity between endangered or threatened marine populations is critical information for management and conservation, especially where abundance and productivity differ among such populations. Spatial patterns of such connectivity depend not only on extrinsic factors such as oceanography and bathymetry but also on intrinsic species-specific factors such as life history, demography and the location of glacial refugia. Nevertheless, population structure is often inferred from related or ecologically similar species. For example, the population structure in most rockfish species (Sebastes spp.) in the Salish Sea and the US West Coast is currently inferred from genetic data of three species that are known to hybridise in Puget Sound. Here, we determined the population structure

SUBMITTER: Wray A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11665494 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature