CDMetaPOP: An individual-based, eco-evolutionary model for spatially explicit simulation of landscape demogenetics

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
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Abstract

1. Combining landscape demographic and genetics models offers powerful methods for addressing questions for eco-evolutionary applications.

2. Using two illustrative examples, we present Cost–Distance Meta-POPulation, a program to simulate changes in neutral and/or selection-driven genotypes through time as a function of individual-based movement, complex spatial population dynamics, and multiple and changing landscape drivers.

3. Cost–Distance Meta-POPulation provides a novel tool for questions in landscape genetics by incorporating population viability analysis, while linking directly to conservation applications.

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Landguth, E.L., Bearlin, A., Day, C., and Dunham, J.B., 2016, CDMetaPOP: An individual-based, eco-evolutionary model for spatially explicit simulation of landscape demogenetics: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, v. 8, no. 1, p. 4-11, https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12608.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title CDMetaPOP: An individual-based, eco-evolutionary model for spatially explicit simulation of landscape demogenetics
Series title Methods in Ecology and Evolution
DOI 10.1111/2041-210X.12608
Volume 8
Issue 1
Publication Date July 16, 2016
Year Published 2016
Language English
Publisher British Ecological Society
Contributing office(s) Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Description 7 p.
First page 4
Last page 11
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