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

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Abstract

Combining landscape demographic and genetics models offers powerful methods for addressing questions for eco-evolutionary applications. 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. Cost–Distance Meta-POPulation provides a novel tool for questions in landscape genetics by incorporating population viability analysis, while linking directly to conservation applications.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4-11
Number of pages8
JournalMethods in Ecology and Evolution
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2017

Funding

We thank Helen Neville, Dan Dauwalter, Seth Wenger, Robin Bjork, Harry Rich and Al Solonsky for fruitful discussions during model development. We thank the class members of FNR 691 from Purdue University and five anonymous reviewers for helpful manuscript comments. We thank Zack Holden for temperature data analysis contributions, for example, applications. We thank Lucas Nathan, Marco Alejandro Escalante, Paul Mayrand, Julian Whittische, and the 2014 and 2016 Distributed Graduate Seminar in Landscape Genetics group projects teams for beta testing. Funding for this research comes from Seattle City Light and NASA grant NNX14AC91G. Any use of trade, product or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

FundersFunder number
Seattle City Light
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNNX14AC91G
Purdue University

    Keywords

    • connectivity
    • dispersal
    • dynamic landscapes
    • gene flow
    • genotype-environment associations
    • growth rate
    • harvesting
    • landscape resistance
    • sampling
    • stream networks

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