Jeff Spence @jeffspence.github.io · Mar 31 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?
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What is happening is that locally the species is actually becoming significantly _less_ genetically diverse, but the fragmentation disconnects parts of the species, which slowly diverge from each other. The species-wide diversity masks the plummeting local diversity. Again, this is BAD.