Ecological segregation moderates a climactic conclusion to trout hybridization

渗入 虹鳟 分类单元 生态学 钩吻 消光(光学矿物学) 鳟鱼 繁殖体 生物 引进物种 局部消光 地理 渔业 人口 生物扩散 人口学 古生物学 生物化学 基因 社会学
作者
Michael K. Young,Daniel J. Isaak,Kevin S. McKelvey,Taylor M. Wilcox,Matthew R. Campbell,Matthew P. Corsi,Dona L. Horan,Michael K. Schwartz
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期刊:Global Change Biology [Wiley]
卷期号:23 (12): 5021-5023 被引量:8
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DOI:10.1111/gcb.13828
摘要

For decades, it has been assumed that introgressive hybridization between introduced rainbow trout and native cutthroat trout in western North America will lead to genomic extinction of the latter. A broad-scale re-examination of their interaction indicates that ecological differences between these species and demographic processes are dictating the location and extent of their hybrid zones, and that runaway introgression between these taxa is unlikely. Invasive hybridization, in which an introduced species may introgressively hybridize with a native taxon and threaten its persistence, is prominently featured in the conservation literature. One of the most frequently cited examples of this phenomenon involves interactions between native westslope cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi and introduced rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in a portion of the U.S. Northern Rocky Mountains (Allendorf & Leary, 1988). A recent paper by Muhlfeld et al. (2017) revisited this issue and concluded that introgressive hybridization between these taxa is ubiquitous and related primarily to climatic factors and propagule pressure from rainbow trout, findings which corroborate an earlier study (Young et al., 2016) that accurately quantified how broad riverscape gradients—not thresholds—in temperature, zoogeographic characteristics, and propagule pressure were related to levels of introgression. Yet, Muhlfeld et al. (2017) argued that there were deficiencies in that analysis and discounted that these same gradients can result in resistance of westslope cutthroat trout populations to invasive hybridization. Instead, based on extrapolation of decadal trends at nonrandom monitoring sites, they asserted that genomic extinction—the loss of all unhybridized parental forms—is inevitable for most populations of westslope cutthroat trout in the absence of physical obstacles to upstream dispersal by rainbow trout or human intervention to remove them. We question this assertion based on our field observations and critical review of the subject (McKelvey et al., 2016; Young et al., 2016), the emerging recognition of environmental constraints on introgression (Wang & Bradburd, 2014), and the ecophysiological differences between these taxa and their hybrids (Rasmussen, Robinson, Hontela, & Heath, 2012). Resolving this issue is crucial, because resources to effect conservation are limited and poorly informed efforts can be costly and have unintended consequences (Fausch, Rieman, Dunham, Young, & Peterson, 2009). Our uncertainty about the inevitability of genomic extinction stems from our own observations and a meta-analysis of 29 other studies involving hybridization between these species (McKelvey et al., 2016). Collectively, these studies revealed that apparently nonintrogressed cutthroat trout were common in most locations that also harbored rainbow trout or hybrids between the two. Moreover, the alleles of both taxa were strikingly nonrandomly distributed among samples of individuals (Figures 1 and 2) despite over a century of potential hybridization and the subsidy of rainbow trout propagules from the stocking of hundreds of millions of fish for anglers. That nonrandomness implies substantial resistance to introgression and likely reflects the ecological segregation of these taxa. Cutthroat trout tend to be found in smaller, colder, and less productive streams, whereas rainbow trout occupancy peaks in larger, warmer environments, preferences that probably arise from differences in their physiological traits (Rasmussen et al., 2012). Consequently, longitudinal gradients in hybridization between these species in streams are the norm and appear to represent environmentally mediated hybrid zones, a pattern observed between countless taxa in many environments, including historically sympatric species (Jiggins & Mallet, 2000). Also instructive, although not considered by Muhlfeld et al. (2017), is that rainbow trout have naturally co-occurred with westslope cutthroat trout elsewhere in the Northwest since the last glacial maximum or longer. There, these species also readily hybridize and patterns in allele distributions and hybrid zone structure along environmental gradients are nearly indistinguishable from those where rainbow trout are non-native, with one exception: levels of introgression are markedly higher within the native range of rainbow trout (Young et al., 2016). Yet this region remains a stronghold for effectively genetically intact populations of westslope cutthroat trout, despite thousands of generations for hybridization to spread (Figure 2). We are not blithely sanguine about the threats posed by invasive hybridization to populations of westslope cutthroat trout in this era of rapid environmental change and non-native species invasions (Isaak, Young, Nagel, Horan, & Groce, 2015). Instead, our emphasis is on critically weighing conservation risks to guide timely, strategic decision making. Examining hybridization risks between taxa in the spatial context of entire river networks or landscapes and the broad environmental gradients therein can greatly contribute to the realism and geographic generality of models and the inferences they provide. In the case of hybridization between rainbow trout and westslope cutthroat trout, we coupled those types of models (Young et al., 2016) with our understanding of the climate inertia of cold water mountain streams (Isaak et al., 2016) to make spatially explicit predictions about the current and future positions and characteristics of hybrid zones under a variety of climate and invasion scenarios. Those analyses suggested that nonintrogressed populations of westslope cutthroat trout will remain, albeit in fewer locations and smaller populations (in which they are relatively persistent; Isaak et al., 2015), because of their ecological differences and the geomorphological diversity inherent to mountainous terrain. Those predictions—and our dataset—are publically available online (https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/boise/AWAE/projects/CutthroatRainbowTrout.html) to permit fellow researchers to replicate, test, or expand on our results in the collective effort to develop a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of environmental change and the eventual outcomes of species interactions.
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