Are genetic variation and demographic performance linked?

ABSTRACT: Quantifying relationships between genetic variation and population viability is important from both basic biological and applied conservation perspectives, yet few populations have been monitored with both long-term demographic and population genetics approaches. To empirically test whether and how genetic variation and population dynamics are related, we present one such paired approach. First, we use eight years of historical demographic data from five populations of Boechera fecunda (Brassicaceae), a rare, self-compatible perennial plant endemic to Montana, USA, and use integral projection models to estimate the stochastic population growth rate (λ _S) and extinction risk of each population. We then combine these demographic estimates with previously published me

SUBMITTER: Carley LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9679243 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature