Landscape genetics
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Landscape genetics is the scientific discipline that combines population genetics and landscape ecology. It broadly encompasses any study that analyses plant or animal population genetic data in conju
Rivers and mountains can act as barriers to dispersal, thus preventing gene flow between populations.
White tail deer
Biological dispersal
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Biological dispersal refers to both the movement of individuals from their birth site to their breeding site and the movement from one breeding site to another. The term also encompasses the movement
Landscape genetics
…realistic view of how populations interact with their environments. Landscape genetics attempts to determine which landscape features are barriers to dispersal and gene flow, how human-induced landscape changes affect the evolution of populations, the source-sink dynamics of a given population, and how diseases…
A dandelion seed caught in a spider web strand. Dandelions disperse seeds via wind currents.
Dispersal from parent population
Epilobium hirsutum — Seed head
Image showing rivers as dispersal vectors