Abstract:A fragmented landscape, which contains a patchwork of vegetated hospitable areas and a barren intervening matrix, may reduce gene flow in a population and over time result in an increase in population structure.
We tested this prediction in crab spiders (Mecaphesa celer (Hentz, 1847)) inhabiting isolated habitat patches in the lava matrix of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho, USA.
Using reduced‐representation genomic sequencing, we did not find evidence of population structure due to a … Show more
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