Species Are Hypotheses: Avoid Connectivity Assessments Based on Pillars of Sand
Molecular Ecology (2015) 24, 525–544 doi: 10.1111/mec.13048 INVITED REVIEWS AND SYNTHESES Species are hypotheses: avoid connectivity assessments based on pillars of sand 1 1 1 ERIC PANTE,* NICOLAS PUILLANDRE,† AMELIA VIRICEL,* SOPHIE ARNAUD-HAOND,‡ DIDIER AURELLE,§ MAGALIE CASTELIN,¶ ANNE CHENUIL,§ CHRISTOPHE DESTOMBE,**†† DIDIER FORCIOLI,‡‡§§ MYRIAM VALERO,**†† FREDERIQUE VIARD**¶¶ and SARAH SAMADI† *Littoral, Environnement et Societes (LIENSs), UMR 7266 CNRS - Universite de La Rochelle, 2 rue Olympe de Gouges, 17042 La Rochelle, France, †ISYEB – UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC (University Paris 06), EPHE – Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universites, CP26, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France, ‡IFREMER, UMR 212 Ecosystemes marins Exploites, F-34203 Sete, France, §Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Universite, IMBE UMR 7263, 13397 Marseille, France, ¶Aquatic Animal Health Section, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station, 3190 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo BC, Canada, V9T 6N7, **Sorbonne Universites, UPMC, University Paris 06, Station Biologique de Roscoff, F-29680 Roscoff, France, ††CNRS, Laboratory Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Algae, Sorbonne Universites, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) Univ Paris 06, UMI 3614, UPMC, PUCCh, UACh, Station Biologique de Roscoff, F-29680 Roscoff, France, ‡‡Faculte des Sciences, Universite Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, Equipe Symbiose Marine UMR 7138, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice Cedex 2, France, §§UMR 7138 Evolution Paris Seine, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie – CNRS, 7 Quai St Bernard, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France, ¶¶Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratory Adaptation and Diversity in the Marine Environment, Team Diversity and Connectivity in Coastal Marine Landscapes, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, F-29680 Roscoff, France Abstract Connectivity among populations determines the dynamics and evolution of populations, and its assessment is essential in ecology in general and in conservation biology in particu- lar.
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