Event Abstract Back to Event Patterns and processes in the phylogeography of Western Europe marine fishes Joana I. Robalo1* 1 ISPA/MARE, Portugal One of the major concerns in the studies of phylogeography of north-eastern Atlantic fishes has been the location of potential unglaciated refugia, where inshore species could have survived the successive glacial peaks of the Pleistocene. The inshore fish species that now occur in west Europe vary in their thermal tolerance, life-history patterns and biogeographic origin and several distributional and phylogeographic patterns can be observed. Some species present a pattern of high level of genetic diversity in the southern part of the range, with the genetic diversity decreasing to the northern limit of their distribution. Many other do not conform to this pattern, presenting similar depths of genealogies throughout their entire ranges, with no drop of genetic diversity in the extreme north. Differences in thermal tolerances and also in life-history patterns may have an important role in the explanation of a substantial part of the variability in the results but a multi species comparison approach is needed to test these hypotheses. Pleistocenic marine refugia in Western Europe and potential routes of post-glacial re-colonization are also discussed. Keywords: Phylogeography, marine fishes, Northeastern Atlantic, Pleistocene refugia, glaciar refugia Conference: XV European Congress of Ichthyology, Porto, Portugal, 7 Sep - 11 Sep, 2015. Presentation Type: Plenary Invited Presentation Topic: Phylogeny, Systematics and Genetics Citation: Robalo JI (2015). Patterns and processes in the phylogeography of Western Europe marine fishes. Front. Mar. Sci. Conference Abstract: XV European Congress of Ichthyology. doi: 10.3389/conf.fmars.2015.03.00057 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 10 Nov 2015; Published Online: 10 Nov 2015. * Correspondence: PhD. Joana I Robalo, ISPA/MARE, Lisbon, 1149-041, Portugal, jrobalo@ispa.pt Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract Supplemental Data The Authors in Frontiers Joana I Robalo Google Joana I Robalo Google Scholar Joana I Robalo PubMed Joana I Robalo Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.