Embedded Files
Lecture Synopsis
In this lecture, we dive into some specifics on how plant systems may be well suited for understanding how features of the landscape influence future population genetic structure by mediating and influencing gene flow. Plants provide a particularly good system due to their immobility and separation of reproduction into pollen vs. seed dispersal. Specific learning objectives focus on describing and giving you an understanding of:
What is functional connectivity in plants and the main challenges to study it?
What are the advantages and limitations of analyzing historical and contemporary gene flow (traditional versus contemporary approaches)?
Which inferences can we draw from looking at pollen and seed flow as multiscale processes?
Readings
Required reading:
Chapter 11 of textbook (Landscape and plant population genetics)
Recommended readings:
Cruzan, M. B., & Hendrickson, E. C. (2020). Landscape genetics of plants: challenges and opportunities. Plant Communications, 1(6). www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590346220301280
Encinas‐Viso, et al (2023). Pollen DNA metabarcoding reveals cryptic diversity and high spatial turnover in alpine plant–pollinator networks. Molecular Ecology, 32(23), 6377-6393. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.16682#citedby-section
Auffret et al. (2017) Plant functional connectivity – integrating landscape structure and effective dispersal https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12742
Lecture Slides
Week 14 slides
Lecture Video
Exercises
This week's Worked Example can be accessed here: https://bookdown.org/hhwagner1/LandGenCourse_book/Week14.html
Paper related to worked example: DiLeo, M. F., Holderegger, R., & Wagner, H. H. (2018). Contemporary pollen flow as a multiscale process: Evidence from the insect‐pollinated herb, Pulsatilla vulgaris. Journal of Ecology, 106(6), 2242-2255. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.12992
Feedback
Please use this form to provide us with any feedback on this lecture. These comments are collected anonymously and will be used to improve this course for the next time it is offered.
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse