Landscape Genetics of Plants: Challenges and Opportunities.

ABSTRACT: Dispersal is one of the most important but least understood processes in plant ecology and evolutionary biology. Dispersal of seeds maintains and establishes populations, and pollen and seed dispersal are responsible for gene flow within and among populations. Traditional views of dispersal and gene flow assume models that are governed solely by geographic distance and do not account for variation in dispersal vector behavior in response to heterogenous landscapes. Landscape genetics integrates population genetics with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to evaluate the effects of landscape features on gene flow patterns (effective dispersal). Surprisingly, relatively few landscape genetic studies have been conducted on plants. Plants present advantages because their populations are stati

SUBMITTER: Cruzan MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7748010 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature