Challenges in analysis and interpretation of microsatellite data for population genetic studies

AI Putman, I Carbone - Ecology and evolution, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Advancing technologies have facilitated the ever‐widening application of genetic markers
such as microsatellites into new systems and research questions in biology. In light of the …

Landscape genetics in a changing world: disentangling historical and contemporary influences and inferring change

CW Epps, N Keyghobadi - Molecular ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape genetics seeks to determine the effect of landscape features on gene flow and
genetic structure. Often, such analyses are intended to inform conservation and …

Using neutral, selected, and hitchhiker loci to assess connectivity of marine populations in the genomic era

PA Gagnaire, T Broquet, D Aurelle… - Evolutionary …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating the rate of exchange of individuals among populations is a central concern to
evolutionary ecology and its applications to conservation and management. For instance …

Ecological connectivity research in urban areas

S LaPoint, N Balkenhol, J Hale, J Sadler… - Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The successful movement of individuals is fundamental to life. Facilitating these movements
by promoting ecological connectivity has become a central theme in ecology and …

Assessing population structure in the face of isolation by distance: are we neglecting the problem?

MF Perez, FF Franco, JR Bombonato… - Diversity and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To investigate how the potential bias from isolation by distance (IBD) in inferences of
population structure has been addressed, in studies aiming biodiversity conservation …

Landscape genomics: understanding relationships between environmental heterogeneity and genomic characteristics of populations

N Balkenhol, RY Dudaniec, KV Krutovsky… - Population genomics …, 2019 - Springer
Landscape genomics is a rapidly advancing research field that combines population
genomics, landscape ecology, and spatial analytical techniques to explicitly quantify the …

Looking beyond the mountain: dispersal barriers in a changing world

P Caplat, P Edelaar, RY Dudaniec… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersal barriers have demographic, evolutionary, and ecosystem‐wide consequences.
With ongoing changes in the environment, some dispersal barriers will likely disappear …

landgenreport: a new r function to simplify landscape genetic analysis using resistance surface layers

B Gruber, AT Adamack - Molecular Ecology Resources, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We describe functions recently added to the r package popgenreport that can be used to
perform a landscape genetic analysis (LGA) based on landscape resistance surfaces, which …

Optimizing the trade‐off between spatial and genetic sampling efforts in patchy populations: Towards a better assessment of functional connectivity using an individual …

JG Prunier, B Kaufmann, S Fenet, D Picard… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic data are increasingly used in landscape ecology for the indirect assessment of
functional connectivity, that is, the permeability of landscape to movements of organisms …

CDMeta POP: an individual-based, eco-evolutionary model for spatially explicit simulation of landscape demogenetics.

EL Landguth, A Bearlin, CC Day… - Methods in Ecology …, 2017 - search.ebscohost.com
Combining landscape demographic and genetics models offers powerful methods for
addressing questions for eco-evolutionary applications., Using two illustrative examples, we …