CDFISH: An individual-based, spatially-explicit, landscape genetics simulator for aquatic species in complex riverscapes

Erin L. Landguth, C. C. Muhlfeld, G. Luikart

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Abstract

Weintroduce Cost Distance FISHeries (CDFISH), a simulator of population genetics and connectivity in complex riverscapes for a wide range of environmental scenarios of aquatic organisms. The spatially-explicit program implements individual-based genetic modeling with Mendelian inheritance and k-allele mutation on a riverscape with resistance to movement. The program simulates individuals in subpopulations through time employing userdefined functions of individual migration, reproduction, mortality, and dispersal through straying on a continuous resistance surface.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)133-136
Number of pages4
JournalConservation Genetics Resources
Volume4
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2012

Keywords

  • Climate change
  • Computer simulations
  • Connectivity
  • Conservation biology
  • Dispersal
  • Freeware
  • Gene flow
  • Habitat fragmentation
  • Stream networks
  • Stream resistance

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