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Impact of habitat fragmentation on genetic population structure of roach, Rutilus rutilus, in a riparian ecosystem

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During the last 200 years, the riparianecosystem along major rivers has been reducedto a few scattered remnants. Important elementsof the riparian ecosystem are water bodieswhich were originally connected to the mainriver channel by annual floodings. Due to riverregulations many of these remnants are nowvirtually isolated. In an allozyme analysisusing roach, Rutilus rutilus, as a studyspecies we demonstrate that the geneticdiversity (number of alleles per locus,expected heterozygosity) of populations livingwithin floodplain water bodies is not severelyimpoverished compared to the genetic diversitywithin the main river channel. However, wefound slight differences in the allelefrequencies of flood plain water bodies and themain river channel. Nevertheless, fishpopulations in floodplain water bodies mayserve as reservoirs of autochthonous geneticmaterial for restoration of fish populations inthe main river channel after populationextinction due to catastrophic accidents (e.g.industrial pollution).

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  1. Sektion Biozönoseforschung, Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle GmbH, Theodor-Lieser Str. 4, 06120, Halle/Salle, Germany

    Bernd Hänfling, W. Durka & R. Brandl

  2. Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, United Kingdom

    Bernd Hänfling

  3. Department of Animal Ecology, University of Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str, 35032, Marburg, Germany

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Hänfling, B., Durka, W. & Brandl, R. Impact of habitat fragmentation on genetic population structure of roach, Rutilus rutilus, in a riparian ecosystem. Conservation Genetics 5, 247–257 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:COGE.0000030008.20492.2c

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