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Using DNA Barcoding and Standardized Sampling to Compare Geographic and Habitat Differentiation of Crustaceans: A Hawaiian Islands Example

by
Laetitia Plaisance
1,2,
Russell Brainard
3,
M. Julian Caley
4 and
Nancy Knowlton
1,2,*
1
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, MRC 163, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
2
Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
3
NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, 1125-B Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu, HI 96814, USA
4
Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No. 3, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia
*
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Diversity 2011, 3(4), 581-591; https://doi.org/10.3390/d3040581
Received: 1 July 2011 / Revised: 29 August 2011 / Accepted: 9 September 2011 / Published: 29 September 2011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coral Reef Diversity: Climate Change and Coral Reef Degradation)
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Recently, the Census of Marine Life has explored methods to assess coral reef diversity by combining standardized sampling (to permit comparison across sites) with molecular techniques (to make rapid counts of species possible). To date, this approach has been applied across geographically broad scales (seven sites spanning the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans), focusing on similar habitats at all sites (10–12 m forereef). Here we examine crustacean spatial diversity patterns for a single atoll, comparing results for four sites (comprising forereef, backreef, and lagoon habitats) at French Frigate Shoals (FFS), Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii, USA, within the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. The Bray-Curtis index of similarity across these habitats at FFS was the same or greater than the similarity between similar habitats on Heron Island and Lizard Island in the Great Barrier Reef and much greater than similarity between more widely separated localities in the Indo-Pacific Ocean (e.g., Ningaloo, Moorea, French Polynesia or the Line Islands). These results imply that, at least for shallow reefs, sampling multiple locations versus sampling multiple habitats within a site maximizes the rate at which we can converge on the best global estimate of coral reef biodiversity. View Full-Text
Keywords: Census of Marine Life; CReefs; Northwestern Hawaiian Islands; coral reefs; biodiversity; ARMS; species richness; macroecology; biogeography Census of Marine Life; CReefs; Northwestern Hawaiian Islands; coral reefs; biodiversity; ARMS; species richness; macroecology; biogeography
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Plaisance, L.; Brainard, R.; Caley, M.J.; Knowlton, N. Using DNA Barcoding and Standardized Sampling to Compare Geographic and Habitat Differentiation of Crustaceans: A Hawaiian Islands Example. Diversity 2011, 3, 581-591. https://doi.org/10.3390/d3040581

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Plaisance L, Brainard R, Caley MJ, Knowlton N. Using DNA Barcoding and Standardized Sampling to Compare Geographic and Habitat Differentiation of Crustaceans: A Hawaiian Islands Example. Diversity. 2011; 3(4):581-591. https://doi.org/10.3390/d3040581

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Plaisance, Laetitia, Russell Brainard, M. Julian Caley, and Nancy Knowlton. 2011. "Using DNA Barcoding and Standardized Sampling to Compare Geographic and Habitat Differentiation of Crustaceans: A Hawaiian Islands Example" Diversity 3, no. 4: 581-591. https://doi.org/10.3390/d3040581

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