Lawson Lake, Vancouver Island

Lawson Lake, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Lawson Lake is a small (30 hectare) lake in the Campbell River watershed on Vancouver Island, BC (UTM zone 10 5545844 Northing and 315317 Easting). Stickleback in the lake are ecologically benthic and have a diverse macroparasite community (see linked papers below). A poolseq genome is available giving allele frequencies from 100 pooled individuals.

Publications related to this population

• Article from Ecography April 2020

  Host patch traits have scale-dependent effects on diversity in a stickleback parasite metacommunity

• Article from Ecology 2020

  Scale-dependent effects of host patch traits on species composition in a stickleback parasite metacommunitys

• Article from Ecology Letters January 2020

  Resource diversity promotes among-individual diet variation, but not genomic diversity, in lake stickleback