What types of environmental barriers might limit organisms that are widely distributed and capable of long-distance dispersal?
Science / Life Sciences
Dispersal influences community assembly, species diversity, and evolutionary processes, ultimately shaping biodiversity patterns and affecting how species respond to climate change. The interaction between organism traits and landscape features determines the capacity for dispersal across multiple spatial scales. The latter sometimes act as barriers, restricting population connectivity. This project aims to enhance our understanding of long-distance airborne dispersal, a stochastic and challenging phenomenon to study. By analyzing genomic data from pantropical bryophyte populations, we will estimate the contributions of different dispersal scales to genetic structure and identify landscape obstacles that explain genetic patterns.
Amount invested
Grant 2025: R$ 523.145,00
Institutions
- Universidade Federal da Bahia