The impact of habitat loss and fragmentation on genetic drift and fixation time

Oikos

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 367-375

  Ezard, T H G ^a,b   Travis, J M J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENETIC DRIFT; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

EID: 33746343963     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14778.x     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Arnaud, J. F., Madec, L., Guiller, A. et al. 2003. Population genetic structure in a human-disturbed environment: a case study in the land snail Helix aspersa (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). - Heredity 90: 451-458.
2. Bascompte, J. and Sole, R. V. 1996. Habitat fragmentation and extinction thresholds in spatially explicit models. - J. Anim. Ecol. 65: 465-473.
3. Brook, B. W., Tonkyn, D. W., Q'Grady, J. J. et al. 2002. Contribution of inbreeding to extinction risk in threatened species. - Conserv. Ecol. 6: art. no.-16.
4. Doligez, A., Baril, C. and Joly, H. I. 1998. Fine-scale spatial genetic structure with nonuniform distribution of individuals. - Genetics 148: 905-919.
5. Eldridge, M. D. B., Kinnear, J. E., Zenger, K. R. et al. 2004. Genetic diversity in remnant mainland and "pristine" island populations of three endemic Australian macropodids (Marsupialia): Macropus eugenii, Lagorchestes hirsutus and Petrogale lateralis. - Conserv. Genet. 5: 325-338.
6. Epperson, B. K. 1995a. Spatial distributions of genotypes under isolation by distance. - Genetics 140: 1431-1440.
7. Epperson, B. K. 1995b. Spatial structure of 2-locus genotypes under isolation by distance. - Genetics 140: 365-375.
8. Epperson, B. K. and Li, T. Q. 1997. Gene dispersal and spatial genetic structure. - Evolution 51: 672-681.
9. Frankham, R., Ballou, J. D. and Briscoe, D. A. 2002. Introduction to conservation genetics. - Cambridge Univ. Press.
10. Gardner, R. H. and O'Neill, R. V. 1991. Pattern, process and predictability: the use of neutral models for landscape analysis. - In: Turner, M. G. and Gardner, R. H. (eds), Quantitative methods in landscape ecology. Springer-Verlag, pp. 289-307.
11. Glemin, S., Ronfort, J. and Bataillon, T. 2003. Patterns of inbreeding depression and architecture of the load in subdivided populations. - Genetics 165: 2193-2212.
12. Higgins, K. and Lynch, M. 2001. Metapopulation extinction caused by mutation accumulation. - Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 98: 2928-2933.
13. Hill, M. F. and Caswell, H. 1999. Habitat fragmentation and extinction thresholds on fractal landscapes. - Ecol. Lett. 2: 121-127.
14. Hinten, G., Harriss, F., Rossetto, M. et al. 2003. Genetic variation and island biogreography: microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA variation in island populations of the Australian bush rat, Rattus fuscipes greyii. - Conserv. Genet. 4: 759-778.
15. Keller, I. and Largiader, C. R. 2003. Recent habitat fragmentation caused by major roads leads to reduction of gene flow and loss of genetic variability in around beetles. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 270: 417-423.
16. Kimura, M. 1983. The neutral theory of molecular evolution. - Cambridge Univ. Press.
17. Knutsen, H., Rukke, B. A., Jorde, P. E. et al. 2000. Genetic differentiation among populations of the beetle Bolitophagus reticulatus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in a fragmented and a continuous landscape. - Heredity 84: 667-676.
18. Lande, R. 1987. Extinction thresholds in demographic models of territorial populations. - Am. Nat. 130: 624-635.
19. Newman, D. and Pilson, D. 1997. Increased probability of extinction due to decreased genetic effective population size: experimental populations of Clarkia pulchella. - Evolution 51: 354-362.
20. Nieminen, M., Singer, M. C., Fortelius, W. et al. 2001. Experimental confirmation that inbreeding depression increases extinction risk in butterfly populations. - Am. Nat. 157: 237-244.
21. Ohta, T. 1992. The nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution. - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 23: 263-286.
22. Ovaskainen, O., Sato, K., Bascompte, J. et al. 2002. Metapopulation models for extinction threshold in spatially correlated landscapes. - J. Theor. Biol. 215: 95-108.
23. Perrin, C., Wing, S. R. and Roy, M. S. 2004. Effects of hydrographic barriers on population genetic structure of the sea star Coscinasterias muricata (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) in the New Zealand fjords. - Mol. Ecol. 13: 2183-2195.
24. Saura, S. and Martinez-Millan, J. 2000. Landscape patterns simulation with a modified random clusters method. - Landscape Ecol. 15: 661-678.
25. Segelbacher, G. and Storch, I. 2002. Capercaillie in the Alps: genetic evidence of metapopulation structure and population decline. - Mol. Ecol. 11: 1669-1677.
26. Travis, J. M. J. 2003. Climate change and habitat destruction: a deadly anthropogenic cocktail. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 270: 467-473.
27. Travis, J. M. J. and Dytham, C. 1999. Habitat persistence, habitat availability and the evolution of dispersal. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266: 723-728.
28. Travis, J. M. J. and Ezard, T. H. G. in press. Habitat geometry, population viscosity and the rate of genetic drift. - Ecological Informatics.
29. Van Dongen, S., Backeljau, T., Matthysen, E. et al. 1998. Genetic population structure of the winter moth (Operophtera brumata L.) (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) in a fragmented landscape. - Heredity 80: 92-100.
30. Whitlock, M. C. 2003. Fixation probability and time in subdivided populations. - Genetics 164: 767-779.
31. Whitlock, M. C. and Gomulkiewicz, R. 2005. Probability of fixation in a heterogeneous environment. - Genetics 171: 1407-1417.
32. Whitlock, M. C., Ingvarsson, P. K. and Hatfield, T. 2000. Local drift load and the heterosis of interconnected populations. - Heredity 84: 452-457.
33. With, K. A. 1997. The application of neutral landscape models in conservation biology. - Conserv. Biol. 11: 1069-1080.
34. With, K. A. and King, A. W. 1997. The use and misuse of neutral landscape models in ecology. - Oikos 79: 219-229.
35. With, K. A. and King, A. W. 1999. Extinction thresholds for species in fractal landscapes. - Conserv. Biol. 13: 314-326.
36. With, K. A., Gardner, R. H. and Turner, M. G. 1997. Landscape connectivity and population distributions in heterogeneous environments. - Oikos 78: 151-169.
37. Wright, S. 1943. Isolation by distance. - Genetics 38: 114-138.
38. Yan, T. F., Zu, Y. G., Yan, X. F. et al. 2003. Genetic structure of endangered Rhodiola sachalinensis. - Conserv. Genet. 4: 213-218.