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Applications of landscape genetics in conservation biology: concepts and challenges

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Landscape genetics plays an increasingly important role in the management and conservation of species. Here, we highlight some of the opportunities and challenges in using landscape genetic approaches in conservation biology. We first discuss challenges related to sampling design and introduce several recent methodological developments in landscape genetics (analyses based on pairwise relatedness, the application of Bayesian methods, inference from landscape resistance and a shift from population-based to individual-based analyses). We then show how simulations can foster the field of landscape genetics and, finally, elaborate on technical developments in sequencing techniques that will dramatically improve our ability to study genetic variation in wild species, opening up new and unprecedented avenues for genetic analysis in conservation biology.

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  1. Department of Wildlife Ecology and Management, University Freiburg, Tennenbacher Str. 4, 79106, Freiburg, Germany

    Gernot Segelbacher

  2. Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service, Missoula, MT, USA

    Samuel A. Cushman

  3. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA

    Bryan K. Epperson

  4. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G5, Canada

    Marie-Josée Fortin

  5. Laboratoire TIMC, Group of Mathematical Biology, UMR CNRS 5525, Université Joseph Fourier, 38706, La Tronche, France

    Olivier Francois

  6. Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, CP 160/12, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Av. F. Roosevelt, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Olivier J. Hardy

  7. WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    Rolf Holderegger

  8. Laboratoire d’ Ecologie Alpine, UMR CNRS 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 09, France

    Pierre Taberlet & Stéphanie Manel

  9. Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844-1136, USA

    Lisette P. Waits

  10. Laboratoire Population Environnement Développement, UMR 151 UP/IRD, Université de Provence, 3 Place Victor Hugo, 13331, Marseille Cedex 03, France

    Stéphanie Manel

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Segelbacher, G., Cushman, S.A., Epperson, B.K. et al. Applications of landscape genetics in conservation biology: concepts and challenges. Conserv Genet 11, 375–385 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-009-0044-5

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