Study Design - Dr. Marie-Josée Fortin

Lecture Synopsis

This lecture will introduce the basic notion of sampling design to capture the landscape/environment covariates that could affect genetic diversity/structure. Then, I will present how four analysis levels can be used to analyse landscape genetic data. Finally, I will introduce the most commonly use spatial analysis methods in ecology and landscape genetics.

Readings

- Chapter 4 of textbook: Balkenhol N, M-J Fortin. 2016. Basics of study design: Sampling landscape heterogeneity and genetic variation for landscape genetic studies.
- Chapter 5 of textbook: Wagner HH, M-J Fortin. 2016. Basics of spatial data analysis: Linking landscape and genetic data for landscape genetic studies.

Optional readings and references:

Lecture Slides

Week 6 Slides

Lecture Video

Exercises

- The optional laboratory exercises for this week can be accessed here: https://bookdown.org/hhwagner1/LandGenCourse_book/Week5.html

Conceptual exercise for Week 6 (Please ignore that it's labelled Week 5; we had to switch some weeks around)

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