Landscape Genetics
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Population and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2018) | Viewed by 7581
Special Issue Editor
Interests: landscape ecology; landscape genetics; forest ecology; climate change; wildlife ecology; disturbance ecology; population biology; landscape dynamic simulation modeling; landscape pattern analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Landscape genetics is a new and rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field that combines concepts and methods from population genetics, landscape ecology and spatial statistics. A fundamental goal of landscape genetics is to quantify the effects of landscape composition, configuration and dynamics on spatial patterns in neutral and adaptive genetic variation and underlying microevolutionary processes. Several areas of focus have been recently emphasized to for future development of landscape genetics research. Among these challenges are understanding the effects of different spatial and temporal scales of analysis (challenge 1) and current analytical limitations when testing for landscape-genetic relationships (challenge 2). Another challenge is related to expanding the focus of landscape genetics from the assessment of gene flow to analyses of the distribution and spread of adaptive genetic variation (challenge 3). The goal of this special issue is to bring together some of the best minds in the field of landscape genetics today to present the latest advances on these important questions.
Prof. Dr. Samuel A. Cushman
Guest Editor
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Keywords
landscape genetics
scale
gene flow
selection
landscape structure
landscape change
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