Landscape Genetics

I nterdisciplinarity lies at the heart of landscape genetics, a field described as an "amalgamation of molecular population genetics and landscape ecology" Storfer and colleagues (2007) proposed a more distinct definition of landscape genetics, stating that the field comprises "research that explicitly quantifies the effects of landscape composition, configuration and matrix quality on gene flow and spatial genetic variation. " In a broader sense, landscape genetics builds from those studies that combine population genetic data, adaptive or neutral, with data on landscape structure The matrix in the quotation above defines the often-hostile space that separates the patches of a species' habitat in a given landscape (figure