10.5061/DRYAD.172HM
Nemesházi, Edina
Szent István University
Kövér, Szilvia
Szent István University
Zachos, Frank E.
Naturhistorisches Museum
Horváth, Zoltán
Danube-Drava National Park Directorate; Pécs Hungary
Tihanyi, Gábor
Hortobágy National Park Directorate
Mórocz, Attila
Danube-Drava National Park Directorate; Pécs Hungary
Mikuska, Tibor
Croatian Society for the Protection of Birds and Nature; Osijek Croatia
Hám, István
Zrenjanin; Serbia
Literák, Ivan
University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Ponnikas, Suvi
University of Oulu
Mizera, Tadeusz
University of Life Sciences
Szabó, Krisztián
Szent István University
Data from: Natural and anthropogenic influences on the population
structure of white-tailed eagles in the Carpathian Basin and Central
Europe
Dryad
dataset
2016
white-tailed eagle
Haliaeetus albicilla
recolonization
Holocene
2016-03-30T15:31:50Z
2016-03-30T15:31:50Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.00938
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CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
European populations of the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
suffered a drastic decline during the 20th century. In many countries,
only a few dozen breeding pairs survived or the species disappeared
completely. By today, the populations have recovered, naturally or through
restocking (e.g. in Scotland or the Czech Republic). In the Carpathian
Basin, which is now a stronghold in southern Europe for the species in the
southern part of the distribution range with more than 500 breeding pairs,
only about 50 pairs survived the bottleneck. This region provides
important wintering places for individuals arriving from different regions
of Eurasia. In the present study, we investigated 249 DNA samples from
several European countries, using 11 microsatellites and mitochondrial
control region sequences (499 bp), to answer two main questions: 1) Did
the Carpathian Basin population recover through local population expansion
or is there a significant gene flow from more distant populations as well?
2) Does the Czech population show signs in its genetic structure of the
restocking with birds of unknown origin? Our microsatellite data yielded
three genetically separate lineages within Europe: northern, central and
southern, the latter being present exclusively in the Carpathian Basin.
Sequencing of mitochondrial DNA revealed that there is one haplotype (B12)
which is not only exclusive to the Carpathian Basin but it is frequent in
this population. Our results suggest that in accordance with the
presumably philopatric behaviour of the species, recovery of the
Carpathian Basin population was mainly local, but some of the wintering
birds coming from the northern and central populations contributed to its
genetic composition as well. We detected considerably higher proportions
of northern birds within the Czech Republic compared to the neighbouring
areas, making it likely that parents of the reintroduced birds came from
northern populations.
Individual genotypes of European white-tailed eaglesThis TAB-delimited
text file contains genotypes from 11 nuclear microsatellite loci and
approximate locations of white-tailed eagles from across Europe.
Additionally, haplotypes from the mitochondrial control region based on
499 bp fragments are shown for each sequenced individual. Further details
are described in the
file.individual_genotypes_for_DRYAD-TAB_delimited-20160329.txt
Europe
Central Europe
Carpathian Basin