2019/05/03 by Jem Babbington, Christopher R. J. Boland, Guy M. Kirwan +3 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Genetic diversity and population structure #Identification and Quantification in Food #Fish Biology and Ecology Studies #Acrocephalus #Mangrove #Geography #Ecology #Fishery #Oceanography #Biology #Geology #Demography
paper · doi:10.1080/09397140.2019.1604470
openalex publication_date 2019/05/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
Members of the Eurasian (or Common) Reed Warbler complex, Acrocephalus scirpaceus, are widespread across much of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. With its relatively complex taxonomy, the identity of several local (and sometimes remote) populations remains somewhat unresolved. In Saudi Arabia, populations of reed warblers were first identified in mangroves at Yanbu’ on the Red Sea coast in 1984, with several subsequent records up to 900 km further south toward the Yemen border. We took morphological data from 51 individuals and genetic material from three individuals captured near Jazan in southwest Saudi Arabia. Both genetic and morphometric data confirmed that these birds belong to the taxon A. scirpaceus avicenniae, sometimes referred to as the Mangrove or Red Sea Reed Warbler.