A better understanding of regional spatio-temporal patterns in population dynamics should enhance site-level decision-making.
However the ways in which abiotic and biotic factors interact to determine the existence and nature of spatial patterns in population density remain poorly understood.
We (1) evaluated temporal patterns in population structure, and (2) investigated how these are related to the ecosystem engineering of L. conchilega on marine sediments.
With the advances of sequencing technology and the availability of large datasets, evolutionary biology needs to employ novel techniques, which are akin to those developed within statistical physics [1], to analyse and understand patterns in population dynamics.
In summary, the comparable patterns in population substructure for the two genome-wide scans in PLCO and NHS suggest that controls from one study may reliably be used to contrast with cases from the other study in an association analysis.
Future work could examine patterns in population characteristics in relation to PM2.5 component exposures and patterns related to community factors, such as urbanicity and property values.
As an additional test for recent patterns in population dynamics, we calculated Tajima's D [ 53] in DnaSP v5 [ 61] and Fu's F in Arlequin v3.5 [ 42].
To examine determinants of geographical patterns in population differentiation, we quantified genetic variation of a temperate herb, Arabidopsis halleri subsp. gemmifera, across the Japanese mainland.
Using the probabilistic maturation reaction norm approach, we report evidence for spatial structuring of coastal cod life histories associated with patterns in population structure inferred from neutral markers.
Therefore, the simplest explanation for the observed pattern is that balancing selection is detected in population NW for two genes, while demography (i.e. a past population bottleneck) drives diversity patterns in population SE.
