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Presenter: Kristina Black
Session: 10B - How do ecological processes affect the adaptation and evolution of coral reef organisms in the Anthropocene? (A1042)
Location: Saal Lloyd
Format: Talk
I explore seascape genomics of 2 brooding corals across all reef habitats in the Florida Keys. It turns out that both species contain 3 cryptic lineages that are adaptively divergent by depth. In addition, each cryptic lineage is adapting to environmental gradients on their own- some to nitrogen and some to temperature. We learn that each lineage responds to different environmental barriers, so outplanting efforts will be most successful if genotypes are matched to their local environment.