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2.12 Population Genetics of Vernal Pool Plants: Theory, Data And Population Genetics of Vernal Pool Plants: Theory, Data and Conservation Implications DIANE R. ELAM Natural Heritage Division, California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, CA 95814 CURRENT ADDRESS. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 3310 El Camino Ave., Suite 130, Sacramento, CA 95821 ([email protected]) ABSTRACT. One goal of population genetics is to quantify and explain genetic structure within and among populations. Factors such as genetic drift, inbreeding, gene flow and selection are expected to influence levels and distribution of genetic variation. I review available data on genetic structure of vernal pool plant species with respect to these factors. Where relevant data are lacking, as is often the case for vernal pool plants, I examine how these factors are expected to influence vernal pool population genetic structure. I also consider whether the available population genetic data and theory can help provide approximate predictions of the genetic structure of unstudied vernal pool plant species and suggest reasonable approaches to conservation and management. CITATION. Pages 180-189 in: C.W. Witham, E.T. Bauder, D. Belk, W.R. Ferren Jr., and R. Ornduff (Editors). Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Vernal Pool Ecosystems – Proceedings from a 1996 Conference. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento, CA. 1998. INTRODUCTION 1989), I examine the expectations of theory and available data for vernal pool plant taxa for each of these factors. In the early 1980’s, genetic approaches were identified as po- tentially useful tools in conservation biology for answering FACTORS AFFECTING POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE questions about population viability, long-term persistence of populations and species, and maintenance of evolutionary po- Genetic Drift tential (e.g. Soulé, 1980; Frankel and Soulé, 1981). Despite this awareness and despite the recognition that vernal pools are Expectations of theory. Genetic drift is random change in allele important centers of endemism and valuable laboratories for frequencies that occurs because only a subset of alleles present the study of population biology, evolution and conservation in the parental generation is transmitted to the next generation. biology (Holland and Jain, 1981; Jain, 1994), research on the Genetic drift is expected to substantially influence the genetic population genetics of vernal pool plants has been limited. structure of populations that are continually small in size (e.g. Understanding levels and distribution of genetic variation within < 100 individuals) or that undergo occasional fluctuations to and among populations is necessary if effective conservation small size, as in population bottlenecks or founder/coloniza- and management practices are to be implemented to preserve tion events (Frankel and Soulé, 1981; Futuyma, 1986). Popula- genetic diversity and evolutionary potential (Beardsmore, 1983) tion genetic structure is expected to be substantially altered by µ in vernal pool plants. drift when 1/4Ne is much greater than the mutation rate ( ) and the selection coefficient (s) where Ne is the effective population My review addresses three issues: 1) what do available data size. Effective population size is the number of individuals in and theory tell us about the genetic structure of vernal pool an ideal population that would have the same genetic response plant populations, 2) how might information on levels and dis- to random processes as a real population of size N (Wright, tribution of genetic variation help in the design of effective con- 1931; Crawford, 1984). Ne is difficult to measure accurately in servation and management strategies for vernal pool plant taxa, nature but is generally expected to be less than the census size, and 3) what factors ought to be considered in making predic- N (e.g. Nunney and Elam, 1994). tions about the probable genetic structure of unstudied species. Because theory suggests that evolutionary factors such as ge- Small populations may undergo large and unpredictable fluc- netic drift, inbreeding, gene flow and selection are important in tuations in allele frequencies due to drift. As a result, one can structuring genetic variation (Futuyma, 1986; Hartl and Clark, expect 1) a decrease of genetic variation within populations 180 POPULATION GENETICS OF VERNAL POOL PLANTS (exhibited by loss of heterozygosity and eventually fixation of (Y. Linhart, pers. comm.). Because they provide evidence of alleles) and 2) an increase in differentiation among populations small and/or fluctuating population sizes, these data suggest (i.e. populations become genetically more different from each that genetic drift may influence the level and distribution of other) (Futuyma, 1986; Falconer, 1989). In populations under- genetic variation in some populations of some vernal pool plant going substantial fluctuations in population size, allelic varia- taxa. Populations influenced by genetic drift are expected to tion is likely to decrease (i.e. alleles are likely to be lost) while have reduced levels of genetic variation and high levels of expected heterozygosity often remains relatively unchanged as among-population differentiation. long as population size rebounds rapidly (Futuyma, 1986; Barrett and Kohn, 1991). The specific effects of drift on ge- Few data are available to determine whether observed patterns netic diversity in small plant populations (Ellstrand and Elam, of genetic variation in vernal pool plant taxa are consistent with 1993) and the population genetic consequences of bottlenecks the predictions of genetic drift (Tables 1 and 2). Four of the and founder events (Barrett and Kohn, 1991) have been reviewed eight taxa for which we have data have lower frequencies of elsewhere. polymorphic loci and lower numbers of alleles per locus (i.e. lower levels of genetic variation) than the average plant spe- Genetic drift and vernal pool plants. For genetic drift to be an cies, dicot and annual (Table 1). A recent study of Limnanthes important factor influencing the amount and/or distribution of floccosa ssp. californica suggests that it is especially geneti- genetic variation in a species, the species must contain some cally depauperate. Dole and Sun (1992) found six of nine popu- small populations or populations that undergo fluctuations to lations to lack polymorphism at all 28 loci examined; the small size. I asked whether this was the case for sensitive, threat- remaining three populations were only polymorphic for a single ened or endangered vernal pool plants by examining all occur- locus. Interestingly, the four taxa with reduced levels of genetic rences of vernal pool plant taxa in the California Department of variation are all relatively rare compared to those taxa exhibit- Fish and Game’s RAREFIND (CDFG, 1996) computer database. ing higher levels of genetic variation. This pattern is consistent For the purposes of my survey, I assumed that each occurrence with the observation of Karron (1987; 1991) that restricted spe- constitutes a single population. There is no straightforward way cies generally, but not always, contain less genetic variation to conduct such a survey for both common and rare taxa. How- than their widespread congeners, as measured by percentage of ever, RAREFIND contains substantial data for sensitive species, polymorphic loci and number of alleles per locus. those species most often the focus of conservation efforts. Each taxon in RAREFIND is associated with one or more “habitat codes” Population differentiation, the second pattern associated with which designate the habitat(s) in which the taxon typically oc- drift, is often measured by GST, the proportion of total genetic curs. I defined “vernal pool plant taxa” as those taxa which had variation residing among populations (Hamrick and Godt, “vernal pool” designated as one of their habitat codes. Popula- 1990). In vernal pool taxa for which we have data, GST tends to tion size data (i.e. number of individuals) were available for 59 be about 0.1 or higher. GST values of this magnitude represent vernal pool plant taxa and almost 1000 occurrences. some population differentiation but are lower than the average levels of genetic differentiation reported for plant taxa, dicots Several vernal pool taxa, including Castilleja campestris ssp. and annuals as a whole (Table 2). However, considering the succulenta, Downingia pusilla, Eryngium aristulatum ssp. small scale at which vernal pools are often studied versus the parishii, Gratiola heterosepala and Neostapfia colusana, had larger scale for many other plant species, the GST values for the occurrences of 100 or fewer individuals in the year they were two groups may be comparable. observed. Because they represent only one year, the data are insufficient to address whether these occurrences are continu- The above studies measured levels of electrophoretically de- ally small in size. Small population sizes have been reported in tectable variation. Quantitative variation may exhibit different the literature for populations of Tuctoria and endangered taxa patterns (Lande and Barrowclough, 1987; Hamrick, 1989). One of Limnanthes (Kesseli, 1992). The RAREFIND data also provided study examined this question in a vernal pool taxon. Ritland evidence for substantial fluctuations in population size in some and Jain (1984) found that there was significant among-popu- species (e.g. Blennosperma bakeri, Gratiola heterosepala, lation genetic variation for certain floral and life history char- Orcuttia tenuis, Tuctoria
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