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Using population genetics to determine species dispersal for managing diversity in fragmented agricultural habitats

Reference	D09448
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Godfrey Matthew Hewitt
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor David Glen
Institution	University of East Anglia
Department	Biological Sciences
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	171,111
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/05/1998
End date	01/05/2001
Duration	36 months

Abstract

Populations of the carabid beetle, Pterostichus melanarius, will be sampled at national, county, farm and field spatial scales from differently fragmented landscapes. Their genetic structure will be analysed using 6-12 microsatellite loci in order to estimate the extent of current gene flow between the populations. Sequence variation at the COI region of mtDNA will be used to examine historical divergence at the larger sampling scales. Field boundary permeability, determined from mark-recapture studies, will be used to parameterise dispersal models to generate probabilities of exchange of individuals between populations as a function of time and distance. The model based estimates of dispersal will be compared with those inferred from population genetic structure, and the use of genetic information alone to estimate the dispersal powers of other species will be explored. (Joint with grant D09449).

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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D09449 Using population genetics to determine species dispersal for managing diversity in fragmented agricultural habitats

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