This summer the International Association for Landscape Ecology – North America (IALE-NA) hosted an annual meeting that was originally scheduled to be in person in Toronto, ON, Canada, but due to Covid-19 it was hosted online. This was my first online conference and I was a chair for a special symposium: Landscape genetics as a tool for managing human-impacted landscapes.
We invited researchers that are at various stages of their research careers from all over North America:
Payton Phillips (Graduate Assistant, Temple University)
Felipe Torres-Vanegas (PhD Candidate, University of Toronto Mississauga)
Hossam Abdel-Moniem (postdoctoral fellow, UTM-CUE)
Lindsay Miles (Postdoctoral researcher, University of Toronto Mississauga)
William E. Peterman (Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University)
Melanie Murphy (Associate Professor, University of Wyoming)
Nusha Keyghobadi (Associate Professor, Western University, Canada)
Brad Fedy (Associate Professor, University of Waterloo)
Lisette Waits (Professor, University of Idaho)
The overarching theme in our talks was that species movement and landscape connectivity are major drivers for evolution in urban and/or anthropogenically disturbed habitats.
While many of the presentations are unfortunately unavailable, the summary of the symposium (my talk) is available!
I am interested in urban ecology and evolution. Urbanization can have drastic impacts on local ecosystems, both negative and positive, and creates a new environment for organisms to experience. To understand the impacts that urbanization plays on organisms, I look through the lense of population genetics and molecular evolution.
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