Micheline ManseauEnvironment and Climate Change Canada · Landscape Science and Technology Division
Micheline Manseau
Doctor of Philosophy
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Microhaplotypes are small linked genomic regions comprising two or more single‐nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are being applied in forensics and are emerging in wildlife monitoring studies and genomic epidemiology. Typically, targeted in non‐coding regions, microhaplotypes in exonic regions can be designed with larger amplicons to capture fun...
Abundance estimation is frequently an objective of conservation and monitoring initiatives for threatened and other managed populations. While abundance estimation via capture–mark–recapture or spatially explicit capture–recapture is now common, such approaches are logistically challenging and expensive for species such as boreal caribou (Rangifer...
In conservation strategies, getting precise and repeatable information on the species’ diet and health without relying on invasive or laborious methods is challenging. Here, we developed an efficient and non-invasive workflow for the sequencing and analysis of four taxonomic markers from fecal DNA to characterize the gut microbiota, parasites, and...
In conservation strategies, getting precise and repeatable information on the species’ diet and health without relying on invasive or laborious methods is challenging. Here, we developed an efficient and non-invasive workflow for the sequencing and analysis of four taxonomic markers from fecal DNA to characterize the gut microbiota, parasites, and...
Accurate and efficient microsatellite loci genotyping is an essential process in population genetics that is also used in various demographic analyses. Protocols for next‐generation sequencing of microsatellite loci enable high‐throughput and cross‐compatible allele scoring, common issues that are not addressed by conventional capillary‐based appro...
The conservation of genetic diversity and connectivity is essential for the long-term persistence and adaptive ability of a species. Recent calls have been made for the inclusion of genetic diversity and differentiation measures in the assessment, management, and conservation of species. However, the literature often lacks direction on how to do so...
Accurate and efficient genotyping of microsatellite loci is essential for their application in population genetics and various demographic analysis. Protocols for next generation sequencing of microsatellite loci generate high-throughput and cross-compatible allele scoring characteristics: common issues associated with size separation on convention...
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) have experienced dramatic declines in both range and population size across Canada over the past century. Boreal caribou (R. t. caribou), 1 of the 12 Designatable Units, has lost approximately half of its historic range in the last 150 years, particularly along the southern edge of its distribution. Despite this overall...
Context
A variety of metrics can be used to measure connectivity of protected areas. Assumptions about animal movement and mortality vary among metrics. There is a need to better understand what to use and why, and how much conclusions depend on the choice of metric.
Objectives
We compare selected raster-based moving-window metrics for assessing t...
Intra-specific diversification in the northern hemisphere is a recent phenomenon, particularly for vertebrates, due to climatic oscillations during the Quaternary. Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) are a recently diversified, keystone species in North America with a continental-wide distribution and a large amount of phenotypic variation. We assess patte...
Density is an important demographic parameter that is commonly overlooked in studies of wild populations. Here, we examined the effects of variable spatially explicit density on a range of demographic parameters in a wild population of a cryptic ungulate, boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou). Using non-invasive genetic sampling, we a...
Context
A variety of metrics can be used to measure connectivity of protected areas. Assumptions about animal movement and mortality vary among metrics. There is a need to better understand what to use and why, and how much conclusions depend on the choice of metric.
Objectives
We compare selected raster-based moving-window metrics for assessing t...
Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) are threatened in Canada because of the drastic decline in population size caused primarily by human-induced landscape changes that decrease habitat and increase predation risk. Conservation efforts have largely focused on reducing predators and protecting critical habitat, whereas research on dietary ni...
Conservation genomics is an important tool to manage threatened species under current biodiversity loss. Recent advances in sequencing technology mean that we can now use whole genomes to investigate demographic history, local adaptation, inbreeding, and more in unprecedented detail. However, for many rare and elusive species only non-invasive samp...
Network analysis is a highly flexible statistical framework with a diversity of uses across both ecology and other fields of study. Recent developments in ecological-based network methods have created active research interest in areas such as animal behaviour, community ecology, and landscape connectivity. With the increasing availability of geneti...
Pleistocene glacial cycles influenced the diversification of high‐latitude wildlife species through recurrent periods of range contraction, isolation, divergence, and expansion from refugia and subsequent admixture of refugial populations. We investigate population size changes and the introgressive history of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in western...
Population monitoring can take many different forms, and monitoring elusive and endangered species frequently involves a variety of sparse data from different sources. Small populations are often hard to sample precisely and without bias, so when estimates of vital rates like survival or recruitment point to conflicting population trends, it can be...
• In social species, reproductive success and rates of dispersal vary among individuals resulting in spatially structured populations. Network analyses of familial relationships may provide insights on how these parameters influence population‐level demographic patterns. These methods, however, have rarely been applied to genetically derived pedigr...
Small, isolated populations are prone to inbreeding, increasing the proportion of homozygous sites across the genome that can be quantified as runs of homozygosity (ROH). Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) are declining across their range in Canada; thus, understanding the effects of inbreeding on genetic potential is pertinent for conserving small, isola...
Pleistocene glacial cycles influenced the diversification of high-latitude wildlife species through recurrent periods of range contraction, isolation, divergence, and expansion from refugia and subsequent admixture of refugial populations. For many taxa, research has focused on genetic patterns since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), however glacial...
Accurately estimating abundance is a critical component of monitoring and recovery of rare and elusive species. Spatial capture-recapture (SCR) models are an increasingly popular method for robust estimation of ecological parameters. We provide an analytical framework to assess results from empirical studies to inform SCR sampling design, using bot...
Parallel evolution can occur through selection on novel mutations, standing genetic variation, or adaptive introgression. Uncovering parallelism and introgressed populations can complicate management of threatened species as parallelism may have influenced conservation unit designations and admixed populations are not generally considered under leg...
Varestrongylus eleguneniensis (Nematoda; Protostrongylidae) is a recently described species of lungworm that
infects caribou (Rangifer tarandus), muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) and moose (Alces americanus) across northern
North America. Herein we explore the geographic distribution of V. eleguneniensis through geographically extensive
sampling and dis...
Rangifer tarandus, known as caribou or reindeer, is a widespread circumpolar species which presents significant variability in their morphology, ecology, and genetics. A genome was sequenced from a male boreal caribou (R. t. caribou) from Manitoba, Canada. Both paired end and Chicago libraries were constructed and sequenced on Illumina platforms. T...
With increasing human activities and associated landscape changes, distributions
of terrestrial mammals become fragmented. These changes in distribution are
often associated with reduced population sizes and loss of genetic connectivity
and diversity (i.e., genetic erosion) which may further diminish a species' ability
to respond to changing enviro...
Isolation by distance (IBD) is a natural pattern not readily incorporated into theoretical models nor traditional metrics for differentiating populations, although clinal genetic differentiation can be characteristic of many wildlife species. Landscape features can also drive population structure additive to baseline IBD resulting in differentiatio...
Small and declining populations of large mammals are vulnerable to stochastic events and can be at high risk of extinction. Population viability is also susceptible to the detrimental effects of low genetic diversity and inbreeding. The objective of this study was to do an assessment of three endangered caribou subpopulations using non-invasive gen...
The parallel evolution of phenotypes or traits within or between species provides important insight into the basic mechanisms of evolution. Genetic and genomic advances have allowed investigations into the genetic underpinnings of parallel evolution and the independent evolution of similar traits in sympatric species. Parallel evolution may best be...
Genetic analysis can provide important information on the dynamic and spatial structure of groups of animals or populations. Little is known of the genetic population structure of caribou that inhabit the Lake Superior Coastal Range (LSCR) and the level of gene flow between individuals within the range and beyond. From a landscape perspective , thi...
Aim
The presence of refugia in the Canadian High Arctic has been subject to debate for decades. We investigated the potential existence of Arctic refugia during the Pleistocene for a large mammal species in the Canadian Archipelago because if these refugia were present, reconsideration of the evolutionary histories of North American fauna and flora...
Interdisciplinary approaches are necessary for exploring the complex research questions that stem from interdependence in social-ecological systems. For example, the concept of biocultural diversity, which highlights the interactions between human diversity and the diversity of biological systems, bridges multiple knowledge systems and disciplines...
Sex-specific genetic structure is a commonly observed pattern among vertebrate species. Facing differential selective pressures, individuals may adopt sex-specific life history traits that ultimately shape genetic variation among populations. Although differential dispersal dynamics are commonly detected in the literature, few studies have used gen...
Determining age structure of populations is a valuable parameter in wildlife management, but is often difficult to obtain. Here, we tested a noninvasive method via fecal DNA, hormones, and pellet morphometrics to distinguish calf from adult in Central Mountain and Boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou (Gmelin, 1788)) populations. Annua...
Aim
Glacial‐interglacial cycles influenced the contemporary genetic structure of many North American species. While phylogeographical lineage divergence among Pleistocene refugia has been proposed as a significant driver of subspecific and ecotypic differentiation, emerging evidence highlights the role of diversification within refugia in producing...
Using multiple knowledge sources to interpret patterns of biodiversity can generate the comprehensive species characterizations that are required for effective conservation strategies. Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) display substantial intraspecific variation across their distribution and in the Sahtú Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, three...
Juvenile survival is a highly variable life-history trait that is critical to population growth. Antipredator tactics, including an animal's use of its physical and social environment, are critical to juvenile survival. Here, we tested the hypothesis that habitat and social characteristics influence coyote (Canis latrans) predation on white-tailed...
Understanding the evolutionary history of contemporary animal groups is essential for conservation and management of endangered species like caribou (Rangifer tarandus). In central Canada, the ranges of two caribou subspecies (barren-ground/woodland caribou) and two woodland caribou ecotypes (boreal/eastern migratory) overlap. Our objectives were t...
Auyuittuq National Park (Nunavut, Canada) was fi rst established in 1976
as a national park reserve under the National Parks Act of Canada. It was subsequently
established as a national park in 2001 pursuant to the Nunavut Land Claims
Agreement (NLCA). Park governance is currently a co-operative management
framework in accordance with the NLCA, the...
Auyuittuq National Park (Nunavut, Canada) was first established in 1976 as a national park reserve under the National Parks Act of Canada. It was subsequently established as a national park in 2001 pursuant to the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA). Park governance is currently a co-operative management framework in accordance with the NLCA, the...
This book addresses critical questions and analyses key issues regarding Indigenous/Aboriginal Peoples and governance of land and protected areas in the Arctic. It brings together contributions from scientists, indigenous and non-indigenous researchers, local leaders, and members of the policy community that: document Indigenous/Aboriginal approach...
Landscape genetics studies using neutral markers have focused on the relationship between gene flow and landscape features. Spatial patterns in the genetic distances among individuals may reflect spatially uneven patterns of gene flow caused by landscape features that influence movement and dispersal.
We present a method and software for identifyin...
Landscape change may reduce the connectivity of landscapes and impact the movement of animals. If movement processes have been influenced by landscape connectivity, we hypothesize that animals may distribute themselves in larger connected regions of the landscape in order to minimize the movement costs associated with obtaining required resources a...
The influence of landscape features on the movement of an organism between two point locations is often measured as an effective distance. Typically, raster models of landscape resistance are used to calculate effective distance. Because organisms may experience landscape heterogeneity at different scales (i.e. functional grains), using a raster wi...
The International Boreal Conservation Science Panel (IBCSP) is an interdisciplinary team of scientists from the United States and Canada. Its members have a wide range of expertise and experience gained from years of research, conservation, and writing about science issues related to North America and many other parts of the world. The panel is joi...
Glacial refugia considerably shaped the phylogeographical structure of species and may influence intra-specific morphological, genetic, and adaptive differentiation. However, the impact of the Quaternary ice ages on the phylogeographical structure of North American temperate mammalian species is not well-studied. Here, we surveyed ∼1600 individuals...
Maximum-Likelihood tree of mtDNA control region haplotypes showing the two major haplogroups (A and B) including the three ancient lineages in haplogroup A (A1–A3). Bootstrap values > 40% are shown.
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Haplotype list including the longitudes and latitudes of the pie charts in
figure 3
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Distribution map of different caribou subspecies and samples included in this study. GenBank samples (white circles) and samples sequenced for this study (black circles) are shown.
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Bayesian phylogenetic tree reconstruction based on mitochondrial control region haplotypes. Bayesian posterior probabilities (>75%) are shown. Coloured branches represent haplogroups (red = A1, blue = A2, green = A3). The branch labelled with an * is shortened by 90% and haplotype names are given.
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Median-joining network of the three identified lineages (A1–A3) in woodland caribou. Circles represent haplotypes and circle size is proportional to haplotype frequencies. Circles are coloured according to haplogroup membership: A1 = red, A2 = blue, A3 = green, and yellow = haplotypes that are found in other caribou subspecies.
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Towards best management practices for the effective protection of boreal woodland caribou in Saskatchewan.
A. Alan Arsenault1, Micheline Manseau2,3
1AMEC Environment & Infrastructure, 4015 Millar Ave., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada S7K 2K6 (Al.Arsenault@amec.com).
2Parks Canada Agency, 145 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 0R9 (Miche...
A critical step in recovery efforts for endangered and threatened species is the monitoring of population demographic parameters. As part of these efforts, we evaluated the use of fecal-DNA based capture-recapture methods to estimate population sizes and population rate of change for the North Interlake woodland caribou herd (Rangifer tarandus cari...
Landscape genetic analyses are typically conducted at one spatial scale. Considering multiple scales may be essential for identifying landscape features influencing gene flow. We examined landscape connectivity for woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) at multiple spatial scales using a new approach based on landscape graphs that creates a V...
We present allelematch, an R package, to automate the identification of unique multilocus genotypes in data sets where the number of individuals is unknown, and where genotyping error and missing data may be present. Such conditions commonly occur in noninvasive sampling protocols. Output from the software enables a comparison of unique genotypes a...
Resource selection functions (RSF) are often developed using satellite (ARGOS) or Global Positioning System (GPS) telemetry datasets, which provide a large amount of highly correlated data. We discuss and compare the use of generalized linear mixed-effects models (GLMM) and generalized estimating equations (GEE) for using this type of data to devel...
The 13 th North American Caribou Workshop in 2010 was the venue for a remarkable forum of Aboriginal knowledge holders in which experiences and ideas about caribou research and stewardship were shared in a Talking Circle format. Facilitated by Danny Beaulieu (Denesųłıné /Deninu Kųę First Nation) and Walter Bayha (Dé lįnęgotı ˛nę/Dé lı ˛nę First Nat...
The 13th North American Caribou Workshop which was held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was a great success with more than 400 participants: people from Canada, the United States, Norway and Greenland, representatives from co-management and resource management boards across North America, First Nations, Inuit and Inuvialuit, governmental and non-governmenta...
This article examines how the Inuit of Qikiqtarjuaq, Canada, perceive and respond to risk when traveling on the land and how this may enhance safety management in Auyuittuq National Park. Twenty-five interviews and groups meetings were held with community experts and park staff in 2007–2008. The way in which the Inuit of Qikiqtarjuaq perceive and r...