Reduced Genetic Diversity and Increased Structure in American Mink on the Swedish Coast following Invasive Species Control.

ABSTRACT: Eradication and population reductions are often used to mitigate the negative impacts of non-native invasive species on native biodiversity. However, monitoring the effectiveness of non-native species control programmes is necessary to evaluate the efficacy of these measures. Genetic monitoring could provide valuable insights into temporal changes in demographic, ecological, and evolutionary processes in invasive populations being subject to control programmes. Such programmes should cause a decrease in effective population size and/or in genetic diversity of the targeted non-native species and an increase in population genetic structuring over time. We used microsatellite DNA data from American mink (Neovison vison) to determine whether the removal of this predator on the Koster Islands a

SUBMITTER: Zalewski A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4917106 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature