Dear ECOLOG community, I am writing to you in support of a collaborative research project that I am participating in through the Landscape Genetics Distributed Graduate Seminar (DGS). The DGS is an interdisciplinary course that employs Internet-based lectures, laboratories at home institutions, and group projects involving graduate students and faculty mentors from several continents to teach landscape genetics techniques. Within the group projects, we work collaboratively with students across several universities to develop important research questions, with the goal of publishing a peer-reviewed article.
Our study, which I am writing to you about on behalf of my group, is seeking to conduct a review of landscape-wide effects of fragmentation by roads on genetic diversity and structure. Our aim is to characterize these effects across numerous plant and animal taxa in North America and Europe. As a group, we are currently reviewing several publications that assess genetic diversity and genetic structure of individuals and/or populations. Accordingly, this is a request for datasets that we can include in our analysis. All datasets will be cited and we will keep contributing authors aware of the progression of our work. Specifically, we are seeking to identify datasets containing (a) raw genotypic data of sampled individuals and/or populations; and (b) associated spatial coordinates of the sampled individuals and/or populations. If you or any colleagues have such datasets and are willing to share them with us, please contact Charlotte Gabrielsen by email ([email protected]). I will be happy to provide any additional information or answer any questions you may have regarding our project. In the meantime, thank you in advance for your time and support of our project! Best, Charlotte Gabrielsen (University of Wyoming) Philip Bertrand (Trent University) Laura Cuervo (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Lindsay Miles (Virginia Commonwealth University) Kirstin Proft (University of Tasmania) Denim Jochimsen (University of Idaho) Niko Balkenhol (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Lisette Waits (University of Idaho)
