Isolation leads to greater clonality and reduced seed production in a temperate seagrass
These results show that isolated populations have higher levels of clonality and invest less in sexual reproduction. This has important consequences for the managing of declining populations of seagrass where fragmentation and loss of key source populations of propagules may lead to declines in genotypic and genetic diversity and the long-term viability of these important habitat-forming species.
Authors
- Georgina Bramwell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9883-4892)
- P H York
- M J Keough
- E A Treml
- D J Ross
- C. Samantha Sherman
- T M Smith
- P I Macreadie
Institutions
- Australian Institute of Marine Science (AU)
- Australian Antarctic Division (AU)
- Deakin University (AU)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- AgriBio (AU)
- RMIT University (AU)
- James Cook University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of Botany
- Published
- 2026-01-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcag008
- Primary Topic
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00