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1 General Introduction A Multi-Scale Approach to Defining Historical and Contemporary Factors Responsible for the Current Distribution of the White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster (Gmelin, 1788) in Australia Author Shephard, Jill Published 2004 Thesis Type Thesis (PhD Doctorate) School Australian School of Environmental Studies DOI https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/3192 Copyright Statement The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367440 Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au NOTE Appendices 2 and 3 of this thesis consist of reproductions of previously-published journal articles, and have been removed from the electronic version of the thesis. Citations for these articles can be found on page vii. A MULTI-SCALE APPROACH TO DEFINING HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CURRENT DISTRIBUTION OF THE WHITE-BELLIED SEA-EAGLE HALIAEETUS LEUCOGASTER (GMELIN, 1788) IN AUSTRALIA © P.D.Shephard 1998 Jill Shephard B.Ed., B.Sc.(Hons) Australian School of Environmental Studies Faculty of Environmental Sciences Griffith University Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy September 2003 SYNOPSIS The White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster is widespread in Australia, but has been the subject of conservation concern due to suggested localised declines and extinctions. Regionalised monitoring programmes have addressed some aspects of local concern, however a broader approach is needed to gain an understanding of large-scale processes affecting long-term persistence at scales equivalent to the species Australian range. Ultimately, the ability to predict change in population size over time accurately depends on the scale of analysis. By necessity, ecological studies using direct sampling techniques are often made across spatial scales smaller than a species geographic range and across relatively short time frames. This seems counter-intuitive considering that long-term species persistence is often dependent on large-scale processes. The principal aim of this thesis was to identify historical and contemporary forces responsible for the current pattern of population structure in H. leucogaster. This required a multi-scale approach, and the resulting research uses genetic, distributional and morphometric data. Haliaeetus leucogaster is a large territorial raptor that historically has been associated with coastal regions, lakes and perennial river systems. It has an extensive worldwide i distribution from the western coast of India throughout the Indomalaysian region, Papua New Guinea and Australia. By virtue of the species’ large-scale distribution, in Australia it is fairly cosmopolitan in its use of habitat and prey types. Haliaeetus leucogaster is monomorphic for adult plumage colouration, but in body size displays reversed sexual dimorphism with female birds significantly larger. A discriminant function based on 10 morphometric characters was 100% effective in discriminating between 19 males and 18 females that had been sexed using molecular genetic methods. Re-classification using a jackknife procedure correctly identified 92% of individuals. The discriminant function should be a viable alternative to genetic sexing or laparoscopy for a large proportion of individuals within the Australo-Papuan range of this species; and can also be used to identify a small proportion of “ambiguous” individuals for which reliable sexing will require those other techniques. I used mitochondrial (mtDNA) control region sequence data to investigate the current distribution of genetic variation in this species at the continental level and within and between specified regional units. I was specifically interested in identifying breaks in genetic connectivity between the west and east of the continent and between Tasmania and the Australian mainland. Overall, genetic diversity was low and there was no significant level of genetic subdivision between regions. The observed genetic distribution suggests that the population expanded from a bottleneck approximately 160 000 years ago during the late Pleistocene, and spread throughout the continent through a contiguous range expansion. There is insufficient evidence to suggest ii division of the population into different units for conservation management purposes based on the theoretical definition of the ‘evolutionary significant unit’. It is clear from the analysis that there are signatures of both historical and contemporary processes affecting the current distribution. Given the suggestion that population expansion has been relatively recent, additional sampling and confirmation of the perceived pattern of population structure using a nuclear marker is recommended to validate conservation monitoring and management at a continental scale. To determine the existence of perceived population declines across ecological time scales, I analysed the Australian Bird Atlas Data to identify the extent and pattern of change in range and density of the species between three Atlas Periods (1901-1976, 1977-1981 and 1998-2001) using a new standardised frequency measure, the Occupancy Index (OI) for 1° blocks (approx. 100km2) across the continent. At the continental scale, there was no significant difference in the spatial extent of occupancy between Atlas Periods. However, there were considerable changes in frequency and range extent between defined regions, and there were distinct differences in the pattern of change in OI between coastal and inland blocks over time. Coastal blocks showed much more change than inland blocks, with a clear increase in the use of coastal blocks, accompanied by a decrease in inland blocks, during the 1977 – 1981 Atlas Period, relative to both other Atlas Periods. The over- riding factor associated with distributional shifts and frequency changes was apparently climatic fluctuation (the 1977 – 1981 period showing the influence of El Niño associated drought). The impression of abundance was strongly dependent on both the temporal and spatial scale of analysis. iii To test for correspondence between geographic variation in morphology and geographic variation in mtDNA I analysed morphometric data from 95 individuals from Australia and Papua New Guinea. First, the degree of morphometric variation between specified regions was determined. This was then compared with the pattern of genetic differentiation. There was a strong latitudinal cline in body dimensions. However, there was no relationship between morphometric variation and patterns of genetic variation at least for mtDNA. Females showed a pattern of isolation by distance based on morphometric characters whereas males did not. Three hypotheses to explain the pattern of morphometric variation were considered: phenotypic plasticity, natural selection and secondary contact between previously isolated populations. I conclude that the pattern of morphometric variation is best explained by the suggestion that there is sufficient local recruitment for natural selection to maintain the observed pattern of morphometric variation. This implies that gene flow may not be as widespread as the mtDNA analysis suggested. In this instance either the relatively recent colonisation history of the species or the inability of the mtDNA marker to detect high mutation rates among traits responsible for maintaining morphometric variation may be overestimating the levels of mixing among regions. As might be expected given the physical scale over which this study was conducted, the pattern of genetic, morphometric and physical distribution varied dependent on the scale of analysis. Regional patterns of genetic variation, trends in occupancy and density and morphometric variation did not reflect continental patterns, reinforcing iv the contention that extrapolation of data from local or regional levels is often inappropriate. The combined indirect methodologies applied in this study circumvent the restrictions imposed by direct ecological sampling, because they allow survey across large geographic and temporal scales effectively covering the entire Australian range of H. leucogaster. They also allow exploration of the evolutionary factors underpinning the species’ current distribution. v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Foremost thankyou to my supervisors Jane Hughes, Carla Catterall and Penny Olsen for support, insightful criticism of drafts of this thesis and advice along the way. For both assistance and logistical support in the field thankyou to Mia Hillyer, Jason Wiersma, Wen and Julie Nermut, Anne Williams, Janelle Ende, members of DNRE (Bairnsdale) and CALM (Kalbarri and Broome), and Nick Mooney (TPWS). Many people contributed feather samples from private collections and I am deeply indebted to them for their generosity. Similarly, to Mike Double for sharing his feather extraction protocol and Glenn Graham for lab advice in the early days. Blood samples and morphometric data from Singapore were provided by the Jurong Bird Park (Singapore) and The National Bird of Prey Centre (United Kingdom). Access to skins and/or morphometric information was provided by curators at the Queensland Museum, Victorian Museum, Tasmanian Museum, South Australian Museum, Northern Territory Museum, Western Australian Museum, The National Wildlife Collection (CSIRO – Canberra), Currumbin Bird Sanctuary, Greenough Wildlife Park, Territory Wildlife Park, DNRE (Bairnsdale), CALM (Geraldton), Peter Frater, Nick Mooney (TPWS) and Jason Wiersma. Thanks also to Birds
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