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Landscape ecology: Population genetics at the metapopulation level

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Distribution of genetic diversity in a landscape depends on both within and among population processes. Selective pressures within populations have traditionally been studied by population genetics, which usually assumes that populations are at equilibrium. However, when selection pressures within and among populations are different, landscape processes are required to define an equilibrium (landscape being defined as the habitat of a set of populations called a metapopulation, and populations will differ depending on their situation in the landscape, i.e. their age and the state of neighboring populations). We examine reproduction systems and life history traits, for which variation depends on landscape processes. Predictions of their states in a metapopulation are drawn from theoretical models, and confronted to observations collected in natural populations.

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  1. Véronique Perrot

    Present address: Zoologisches Institut der Universität, Rheinsprung 9, CH-4051, Basel, Switzerland

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  1. Centre Emberger, CNRS, Route de Mende, BP 5051, 34033, Montpellier, France

    Domenica Manicacci, Anne Atlan & Denis Couvet

  2. Station de génétique et amélioration des plantes, INRA Montpellier, Domaine de Melgueil, 34130, Mauguio, France

    Isabelle Olivieri, Véronique Perrot & Jean-Marie Prosperi

  3. ESV, Batiment 362, Université Paris XI, 91405, Orsay, France

    Pierre-Henri Gouyon

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Manicacci, D., Olivieri, I., Perrot, V. et al. Landscape ecology: Population genetics at the metapopulation level. Landscape Ecol 6, 147–159 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00130027

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