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Analysing the Population Structure of Arctic Waders through Genome Resequencing RiS ID: 11644

Tildelt: kr 68 999

Arctic-breeding shorebirds appear to be declining at a faster rate than elsewhere in the world, a trend attributed to recent climate change (Meltofte et al., 2007; Kubelka et al., 2018). To predict how significant such population changes are, we require knowledge of how these populations have reacted to past perturbations, as well as a clear understanding of present population structure (Chevin et al., 2010). This project aims to clarify the population structure of >10 Arctic-breeding wader species for the first time using next-generation sequencing of blood samples, and to reconstruct past population sizes based on current genetic variation (as in Boitard et al., 2016). The project will also produce a large genomic resource reflecting the current state of genetic diversity in many Arctic wader populations, which can be compared with in future studies to assess how the genetic health of populations is changing in response to climate change.

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