Chapter 8 Population Genetics in the Urban Environment

This lecture module discusses what population genetics can tell us about the urban facilitation and urban fragmentation models of urbanization.

Learning Objectives

  1. Learn what urbanization is and how it affects the abiotic and biotic environments.
  2. Understand the difference between the urban facilitation and urban fragmentation hypothesis.
  3. Learn what population structure, gene flow, and genetic drift are.
  4. Understand how gene flow and genetic drift behave under the urban facilitation and urban fragmentation hypotheses.

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