A first-ever dolphin biodiversity census could help determine how dolphins adapt to changing environments and how we can protect them from the changing environment.
Sign Upadapts to changing ocean conditions, say researchers from Flinders University. As part of the study, recently published in– researchers took part in a census to determine the genetic diversity in over 200 dolphins along 3,000 km of the southern coast of Australia. Their findings may help in future conservation efforts.
According to Andrea Barceló, first author of the study, higher levels of genomic variation may be vital to the survival of wide-ranging marine mammals and other marine species. Because of this, researchers are calling for policy changes and conservation efforts to protect adaptive DNA diversity. This protection will allow for genetic flow among dolphins so they can more easily adapt to habitat changes due to climate change or other human enterprises.
“Information about how the environment affects DNA diversity of marine populations can assist with the population management and in forecasting how they may cope with climate change and other anthropogenic impacts,” says Barceló in a
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