Jeff Spence @jeffspence.github.io · Mar 31 Everything up to now has assumed that habitat is lost along one edge of the species range (as a rough model for the effects of climate change). If instead we model the kinds of habitat fragmentation that result from land use changes, things get weird.
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In these fragmentation scenarios, we actually see genetic diversity _increase_ in the long term. This is super weird! How can destroying habitat result in increased genetic diversity?