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Oudtshoorn, Karen van Rheede van; Rooyen, M.W. van

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03561-0_1

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“…Taxonomy was included to assess the role that phylogenetic relatedness plays in structuring populations, and served as a proxy for organismal traits common to particular clades. Finally, the proportion of GPS coordinates within each of the 23 land cover classes described by the European Space Agency Glob-Cover Portal [13] was included to evaluate environmentally dependent organismal traits [14]. Random forest analysis was used to determine which of the above variables were the most important predictors of IBD or IBE [15,16].…”

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Geographical range size and latitude predict population genetic structure in a global survey

Pelletier¹,

Carstens²

2018

Biol. Lett.

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While genetic diversity within species is influenced by both geographical distance and environmental gradients, it is unclear what other factors are likely to promote population genetic structure. Using a machine learning framework and georeferenced DNA sequences from more than 8000 species, we demonstrate that geographical attributes of the species range, including total size, latitude and elevation, are the most important predictors of which species are likely to contain structured genetic variation. While latitude is well known as an important predictor of biodiversity, our work suggests that it also plays a key role in shaping diversity within species.

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