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Landscape Genetics: Wetlands

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Landscape genetics is defined as research that explicitly quantifies how landscape variables (such as configuration and matrix quality) affect patterns of genetic variation and gene flow. Landscape genetic questions are typically focused on recent gene flow and landscape changes, and therefore, landscape genetic studies are often used to address ecological and conservation questions (e.g., barriers and corridors, source-sink dynamics, influence of landscape change) that are difficult to answer with more traditional demographic methods. Landscape genetics uses genetic data as the dependent variable and typically attempts to correlate genetic relationships with several independent variables representing landscape or environmental data, usually from a geographical information systems (GIS) computer environment that allows the landscape data to be visualized and analyzed using spatial statistics.

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  1. The Wilds, 14000 International Road, 43732, Cumberland, OH, USA

    Stephen F. Spear

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  1. Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

    C. Max Finlayson

  2. International Water Security Network, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Mark Everard

  3. UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

    Kenneth Irvine

  4. RM Wetlands and Environment Ltd., Littleworth, Oxfordshire, UK

    Robert J. McInnes

  5. U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, USA

    Beth A. Middleton

  6. Aquatic Ecosystems Group, Department of Water Science and Engineering, UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

    Anne A. van Dam

  7. Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

    Nick C. Davidson

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Spear, S.F. (2018). Landscape Genetics: Wetlands. In: Finlayson, C.M., et al. The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9659-3_58

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