BIL 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Wood Turtle, Landscape Connectivity, Landscape Ecology
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Determine which land use and climate factors both support and negatively impact suitable wood turtle habitat. Inform managers what wood turtles need and what factors are main causes for habitat loss. Which areas throughout their range have contracted the most/will be hit the hardest in the future and need conservation prioritization. What are the largest/core areas of suitable habitat that can support the largest populations and should be preserved to support the future persistence of the species. Where can we increase and/or protect corridors for gene flow between these patches. The combination of population genetics/genomics and landscape ecology. Studies the effects of environmental heterogeneity on the spatial distribution of genetic variation. Research case 3: spread of invasive species in a non-native region. How do we answer those questions: collect tissue samples from lizards to extract dna, next-gen sequencing, gather snp (single nucleotide polymorphism) data and calculate pairwise genetic differentiation between sites (fst values, using landscape connectivity models (ex.
