CDFISH: an individual-based, spatially-explicit, landscape genetics simulator for aquatic species in complex riverscapes
Landguth EL, Muhlfeld CC, Luikart G. 2011. CDFISH: an individual-based, spatially-explicit, landscape genetics simulator for aquatic species in complex riverscapes. Conservation Genetics Resources. :1-4
We introduce Cost Distance FISHeries (CDFISH), a simulator of population genetics and connectivity in complex riverscapes for a wide range of environmental scenarios of aquatic organisms. The spatially-explicit program implements individual-based genetic modeling with Mendelian inheritance and k-allele mutation on a riverscape with resistance to movement. The program simulates individuals in subpopulations through time employing user-defined functions of individual migration, reproduction, mortality, and dispersal through straying on a continuous resistance surface.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Landguth, Erin; Muhlfeld, Clint; Luikart, G.
- Units
- CRCO , GLAC
- Keywords
- Climate change , Computer simulations, Connectivity, Conservation Biology, Dispersal, Fisheries, Freeware, Gene Flow, Genetics, Habitat Fragmentation, Native Fisheries, Stream networks, Stream resistance