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Preferred term

landscape genetics

Is replaced by

landscape genetics

Definition

[Katherine M. Pease] Landscape genetics is an emerging discipline that utilizes environmental and historical data tounderstand geographic patterns of genetic diversity. Niche modelling has added a new dimension tosuch efforts by allowing species-environmental associations to be projected into the past so thathypotheses about historical vicariance can be generated and tested independently with genetic data.However, previous approaches have primarily utilized DNA sequence data to test inferences abouthistorical isolation and may have missed very recent episodes of environmentally mediateddivergence... , "[Niko Balkenhol] Landscape genetics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that combines methods and concepts from population genetics, landscape ecology, and spatial statistics. The interest in landscape genetics is steadily increasing, and the field is evolving rapidly...

Broader concept

deprecated concept

Entry terms

landscape genetic
landscapes genetic

Scope note

MS Academic Keywords

Creator

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-3997

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0583

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Created 8/3/16, last modified 3/21/22

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