Defining Conservation Units in a Highly Diverse Species: A Case on Arctic Charr.

ABSTRACT: Defining appropriate conservation units is crucial to the protection and management of biodiversity. These delineations deliver further benefit when they include assessments of population vulnerability to extinction from pressures such as climate change. However, delineations and vulnerability assessments are particularly difficult within highly diverse species, such as the salmonid fish Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus), that show extensive phenotypic and genetic variation within and across locations, variable and complex life histories and broad geographic distributions. As yet, the nature and scope of Arctic charr diversity has not been characterised at the scale needed to delineate key conservation units in Scotland. To identify evolutionarily significant and vulnerable populati

SUBMITTER: Fenton S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12745347 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature