Summary: Ecology, 90(8), 2009, pp. 2275­2286
Ó 2009 by the Ecological Society of America
Ecological linkages between community and genetic diversity
in zooplankton among boreal shield lakes
ALISON M. DERRY,1,3
SHELLEY E. ARNOTT,1
JUSTIN A. SHEAD,1
PAUL D. N. HEBERT,2
AND PETER T. BOAG
1
1
Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Canada
2
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada
Abstract. Ecological linkages between species diversity in communities and genetic
diversity in populations have potential to influence the assembly of communities in habitats
recovering from human disturbance, but few studies have attempted to synthesize
relationships between these levels of biological organization, especially for locally adapted
species. No such studies have been done in freshwater ecosystems despite the plethora of
environmental stressors plaguing aquatic communities around the world. We present the first

Source: Arnott, Shelley - Department of Biology, Queen's University (Kingston)

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