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Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2017

Landscape relatedness: detecting contemporary fine-scale spatial structure in wild populations

Norman, Anita J.; Stronen, Astrid V.; Fuglstad, Geir-Arne; Ruiz-Gonzalez, Aritz; Kindberg, Jonas; Street, Nathaniel R.; Spong, Goran

Abstract

Methods for detecting contemporary, fine-scale population genetic structure in continuous populations are scarce. Yet such methods are vital for ecological and conservation studies, particularly under a changing landscape.

Keywords

Continuous distribution; Non-invasive genetic sampling; INLA; Ursus arctos; Inbreeding; Conservation

Published in

Landscape Ecology
2017, Volume: 32, number: 1, pages: 181-194