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Landscape Genetics

Teacher: Carlos Fernandes (Ciência 2007, CBA)

Calendar: July 25-29, 2011


Duration: 30 hours
Schedule: 10h-12h and 14h-18h, everyday

Objectives: This course introduces the field of landscape genetics, a recently emerged
discipline in which population genetics, landscape ecology, and spatial statistics cooperate to
investigate the effect of environmental and landscape variables on genetic diversity, population
structure, and microevolutionary processes. The students will be presented to the conceptual
foundations of the discipline, its current scientific literature, methodologies, and software
toolbox

General Plan:
→ Introduction to population and conservation genetics (6 hours): genetic variation in natural
populations, measures of genetic variation, the Hardy-Weinberg Principle, genetic drift and
effective population size, gene flow and population structure, mutation, natural selection,
quantitative genetics, inbreeding depression, metapopulations and fragmentation
→ Introduction to landscape ecology (6 hours): concepts of scale, landscape models, causes of
landscape pattern, quantifying landscape pattern, landscape metrics, spatial statistics, neutral
landscape models, landscape disturbance dynamics, organisms and landscape pattern,
applications of landscape ecology
→ Landscape genetics (18 hours): genetic markers for landscape genetics, spatial genetic
patterns, statistical tools to identify spatial genetic patterns (e.g. Mantel tests, spatial
autocorrelation, assignment tests, spatially-explicit assignment tests, spatial interpolation),
statistical tools to correlate genetic patterns with landscape and environmental features (e.g.
landscape metrics, ordination, dispersal route analysis), geographical information systems
(landscape composition and configuration, matrix quality, landscape dynamics and
disturbance), study design and sampling, spatial and temporal scales, major research categories
in landscape genetics, functional connectivity and landscape resistance to gene flow,
applications in conservation biology, landscape genetics in the study of adaptation (e.g. to land-
use or climate change), landscape genomics, main software tools, empirical case studies

Location: Departamento de Biologia Animal (FCUL), room 2.3.37


Nº (min, max) students: 5 – 20
Minimum formation: “Licenciatura” (bachelor) in Biology, Geography or related areas

Fee: free for 1st year PhD students in the Doctoral programme in Biology (FCUL) or
Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (UL; UP); 150 euros for FCUL master students; 200 euros
for research technicians and non-FCUL PhD students; 250 euros for others.
Deadline for applications: July 11, 2011
→ Candidates should send a short CV and motivation letter to Carlos Fernandes
(cafernandes@fc.ul.pt)

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