Considering landscape connectivity and gene flow in the Anthropocene using complementary landscape genetics and habitat modelling approaches     

Klinga  Peter  Mikoláš  Martin  Smolko  Peter  Tejkal  Martin  Höglund  Jacob  Paule  Ladislav 《Landscape Ecology》2019,34(3):521-536

Landscape Ecology - A comprehensive understanding of how rapidly changing environments affect species gene flow is critical for mitigating future biodiversity losses. While recent methodological...  相似文献   

Landscape genetics highlight the importance of sustainable management in European mountain spruce forests: a case study on Western capercaillie     

Peter Klinga  Peter Smolko  Diana Krajmerová  Ladislav Paule 《European Journal of Forest Research》2017,136(5-6):1041-1050

The mountain spruce forests of the Western Carpathians have experienced a dramatic deterioration in the last decades increasing the landscape fragmentation. This considerably affected the Western capercaillie population recently surviving within small habitat patches surrounded by unfavourable habitats. Our study shows that the long-term isolation resulted in genetic differentiation with decreasing trend in allelic richness towards the most adjacent western subpopulations. We evaluated dispersal possibilities within the landscape and identified barriers and the most critical corridors between genetically distinct subpopulations. Landscape genetic analysis confirmed that the isolation by environmental features explains the observed genetic patterns better than straight geographical distance. We highlight the urgent need for an active conservation management in the critical habitats where dispersion might be constrained or “bottlenecked” in order to ensure gene flow within the fragmented capercaillie metapopulation of the Western Carpathian mountain forests.  相似文献