Abstract: <p>Variation in habitat quality and disturbance levels can strongly influence a species' distribution, leading to spatial variation in population density and influencing population dynamics. It is therefore critical to understand how density can lead to variability in demographic responses for effective conservation and recovery of species. My dissertation illustrates how density and… more
Abstract: <p>Understanding genetic structure, connectivity, and movement of a species iscritical to management and conservation. Genetic network approaches allow the analysis
of genetic information with flexibility and few prior assumptions. In chapter one, I tested
the ability of individual-based genetic networks to detect fine-scale structure and
connectivity in relation to sampling efforts. My… more
