background-image: url(https://ryanpeek.github.io/img/P1070160.jpg) background-size: cover background-position: 50% 75% class: center, inverse, title-slide # Dammed Rivers: Genetic Signatures of Altered Flow Regimes in a River Breeding Frog (*Rana boylii*) .pull-left[ <br> ## Ryan Peek ### PhD Candidate, Ecology ### *2017/10/25 09:45am* <br> ![](images/CWS_logo_small.png) ] ??? ??? - Here to tell a story about rivers, and an organism which has evolved within these watersheds and yet what we see today is largely a very different ecosystem than what these species experienced 200+ years ago. - As freshwater systems and biota are rapidly declining globally, conservation efforts will require assessment of the adaptive capacity of populations to rapid environmental change. - Small populations with limited genetic diversity may have reduced adaptive potential and difficulty responding to future environmental change. --- background-image: url(images/frogcatcher_connor.png) background-size: 450px background-position: 100% 15% class: left, inverse ## Acknowledgements .pull-left[ - ### Mike Miller & Sean O'Rourke - ### Center for Watershed Sciences - ### Brad Shaffer - ### Amy Lind - ### Corey Luna, many field helpers, SYRCL, Sierra Streams Institute ] --- background-image: url(images/041912_Panorama_NYUBA.jpg) background-size: 900px class: inverse, center, top # California Rivers *N. American freshwater species projected extinction rate is 5x higher than terrestrial animals (Ricciardi and Rasmussen, 1999)* ??? **The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book--a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve… And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day” –Mark Twain (Two Views of the Mississippi, 1883)** - Humans rely on freshwater systems not only for drinking water, but also for agriculture, transportation, energy production, industrial processes, waste disposal, and the extraction of fish and other products. - Human settlements worldwide are concentrated near freshwater ecosystems — over half of the world’s population lives within 20 km of a permanent river (Small and Cohen, 1999). - Freshwater fisheries valued globally at $5.58 billion/year and ecosystem services of wetlands valued $70 billion/year (IUCN Review, Darwall et al. 2008) --- background-image: url(images/hydraulicMining.png) background-size: cover class: goldslide # CA Anthropogenic Legacy: Mining ??? Hydraulic mining originated out of ancient Roman techniques that used water to excavate soft underground deposits. Romans invented “hushing”, certain landscapes in Spain still bear marks of this highly invasive mining technique. called “hydraulicking” by miners of CA, technique still used to remove hillsides -- ### Permanently changed the geomorphology/ecology of CA watersheds -- ### Estimated **8x** more material excavated from Yuba/Bear/American Watersheds than during construction of entire Panama Canal ??? First used by Edward Matteson near Nevada City, California in 1853 during the California Gold Rush. By the mid-1880s, it is estimated that 11 million ounces of gold (worth approximately US$7.5 billion at mid-2006 prices) had been recovered by hydraulic mining in the California Gold Rush. --- background-image: url(images/dams_in_west.png) background-size: 500px background-position: 100% class: left # CA Dammed Rivers ??? Hydroelectric power generation comprises over half of all renewable energy generation in California (California Energy Commission 2010 Majority (84%) of dams are for: 47% Irrigation (n=709) 23% Water supply (n=342) 14% Hydroelectric (n=207) -- .pull-left[ - **Over 1,400 large dams (NID 2007)** - **Residential energy demands expected to increase by 24% by 2035 (US EIA 2010)** ] --- class: inverse, left, top # Foothill yellow-legged frogs (*Rana boylii*) -- .pull-left[ - ### Obligate river breeding frog, uses wide range of habitat, but has disappeared from over 50% of historical range - ### Being evaluated as candidate for state and federal listing under ESA ] -- .pull-right[ ![](images/rabo_range_poly.png) ] --- background-image: url(https://ryanpeek.github.io/img/indian_ck.JPG) background-size: cover class: center, bottom, inverse # *BUT:* Frogs Are Still Here! ### Indian Creek, NF American watershed --- background-image: url(images/nfa_bar.png) background-size: cover class: center, bottom, inverse # *And Here:* ### Mainstem River, NF American watershed --- background-image: url(images/slate_ck_aerial_v2.png) background-size: 400px class: top, left, inverse ### <p style="color:#FFD700;">*But barely holding on here: (Slate Ck: North Yuba)*</p> --- background-image: url(images/P1070476.JPG) background-size: cover class: top, inverse # Frogs As Hydrologic Indicators -- .pull-right[ - ### *R. boylii* strongly linked with local hydrology, and thus the <span style="color:#FFD700;">watershed history</span> ] -- .pull-right[ - ### Spawning timing & habitat selection is tied to receding <span style="color:#1E90FF;">flow cues</span> & increasing <span style="color:#00BFFF;">water temperatures</span> ] ??? - ### 90% of eggs observed in Sierras were in shallow, sheltered waters (n=147) (Bondi et al. 2013) - **< 0.67 m total depth** - **< 0.15 m/s velocity** --- background-image: url(images/rabo_A_P1060730.jpg) background-size: 350px background-position: 90% 5% class: left, middle, inverse # Case Study -- ### Has river (flow) regulation caused genetic fragmentation in *R. boylii*? ??? Expect flow regulation to limit connectivity between populations, thus causing loss of genetic variation/diversity, inbreeding risk goes up and pop bottlenecks, risk of extirpation increases in small populations. -- ### Can we quantify this genetic signature with specific hydrologic metrics of flow impairment? -- ### Use genome-wide methods (RADSeq/RAPTURE)<sup>1</sup> .footnote[ *[1] Ali et al. 2016* ] ??? - Methods like **RADSeq** leverage genome-wide genetic variation to provide insight into ecological/population health - Many amphibian species cryptic/lack data, Large genome size, assessment and monitoring hard to do - *restriction site-associated DNA sequencing*, highly efficient genotyping across thousands of individual samples for targeted loci - For frogs, can sample with non-invasive methods using mouth swabs, or tadpole tail clips --- background-image: url(images/fig1_Study_Sites_overview_jun2017.png) background-size: 550px background-position: 97% class: left, top, inverse ## Study Area --- background-image: url(images/overview_AMER_150.png) background-size: cover background-position: 50% 75% class: left, top ### Study Area: American Watershed ??? These are already small populations! Mainstem may have been the source, or the highway that connected these tributary sites. using the mean pairwise comparison value for Fst and mean river distance, so if 11 sites, approx 55 possible combinations `combn(11, m = 2)` --- background-image: url(images/NFA_log_flow_facet_zoom.png) background-size: cover class: center, bottom ### Hydrographs: Unimpaired --- background-image: url(images/NFA_log_flow_facet_zoom.png) background-size: cover class: center, bottom .pull-right[ <img src="images/eggs_closeup.png" height="100" width="120"> ] ### Hydrographs: Unimpaired ??? Flow management will become even more critical and difficult under warming climate (more rain/less snow, more extreme events and less predictable patterns) --- background-image: url(images/MFA_log_flow_facet_zoom.png) background-size: cover class: center, bottom ### Hydrographs: Impaired (Hydropeaking) --- background-image: url(images/MFA_log_flow_facet_zoom.png) background-size: cover class: center, bottom .pull-right[ <img src="images/desiccated_tads_crop.png" height="100" width="120"> ] ### Hydrographs: Impaired (Hydropeaking) --- class: inverse, center, middle # RESULTS --- ### PCA: Assessing Population Structure N. Sierra Nevada samples *mostly* show structure by watershed (n=7,548 SNPs)
??? Why does structure matter? Indicates loss of variation, potential limited connectivity, small population sizes, isolation, divergence, etc. --- ### PCA: Unimpaired Watershed Limited structure, greater similarity across subpops. (n=8,739 SNPs)
--- ### PCA: Impaired (hydropeaking) Watershed Strong structure, greater divergence across subpops. (n=8,854 SNPs)
--- class: inverse, middle ## F<sub>ST</sub> (Wright 1950): ### a measure of population differentiation due to genetic structure - ### Scaled 0=(panmixis) to 1=(completely different) --- background-image: url(images/fst_vs_meandist_regunreg.png) background-size: 910px background-position: 55% 15% class: left, top ## F<sub>ST</sub> vs. River Distance --- background-image: url(images/fst_vs_streamorder.png) background-size: 910px background-position: 55% 15% class: left, top ## F<sub>ST</sub> vs. Stream Order --- class: center, middle, inverse # Genomic Variation --- background-image: url(images/theta_boxplot_signif_annotated.png) background-size: 850px background-position: 65% 15% class: center, bottom <br> <br> <br> ### Loss of genetic diversity in regulated systems >> unregulated --- class: inverse ## Are metrics of flow strongest factor in genomic patterns? ### Can we integrate genomics with environmental flow management? --- background-image: url(images/relinf_brt_simple.png) background-size: 900px background-position: 55% 15% class: left, bottom ## Boosted Regression Tree Models --- class: left, top, inverse # Summary: .pull-left[ <img src="images/gray_fylf.png" height="220" width="300"> ] ### Flow alteration is having a direct impact on a hydrologically sensitive species at a genomic level -- ### The current population trajectory is highly concerning in Sierras -- ### Flow management and listing distinct population segments may afford some protection... -- ### RAPTURE/RADSeq is a powerful & effective method ??? - (i.e., small pops. with limited connectivity, low diversity) - *RAPTURE/RADSeq* is a powerful and effective method - Genomics should be an integral component in assessments & **monitoring** in future conservation efforts - Targeted research assessing environmental flows & ecological traits across taxa (fish, BMI, frogs) --- background-image: url(images/nfy_recession_bar.png) background-size: cover class: inverse # Thank you! .footnote[ ### *Slides* : ryanpeek.github.io/presentations ]