ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2004
The effect of climatic forcing on population synchrony and genetic structuring of the Canadian lynx.
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- Genome Scans Reveal Species-Specific Selection in the Genus Lynx.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Insights Into Spatial Synchrony Enabled by Long-Term Data.Ecology letters · 2025Review
- Temperature variation generates interspecific synchrony but spatial asynchrony in survival for freshwater fish communities.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Genome-environment association analyses reveal geographically restricted adaptive divergence across the range of the widespread Eurasian carnivoreEvolutionary applications · 2023Article
- Periodic synchronisation of dengue epidemics in Thailand over the last 5 decades driven by temperature and immunity.PLoS biology · 2022Article
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- Gene flow and population structure of a solitary top carnivore in a human-dominated landscape.Ecology and evolution · 2015Article
- Large-scale genetic structuring of a widely distributed carnivore--the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx).PloS one · 2014Article
- History matters: ecometrics and integrative climate change biology.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2011Review
- Of lemmings and snowshoe hares: the ecology of northern Canada.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2011Review
- Periodic travelling waves in cyclic populations: field studies and reaction-diffusion models.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2008Review
- Spatial dynamics of Microtus vole populations in continuous and fragmented agricultural landscapes.Oecologia · 2008Article
- Snow conditions may create an invisible barrier for lynx.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2004Article
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Abstract
The abundance of Canadian lynx follows 10-year density fluctuations across the Canadian subcontinent. These cyclic fluctuations have earlier been shown to be geographically structured into three climatic regions: the Atlantic, Continental, and Pacific zones. Recent genetic evidence revealed an essentially similar spatial structuring. Introducing a new population model, the "climate forcing of ecological and evolutionary patterns" model, we link the observed ecological and evolutionary patterns. Specifically, we demonstrate that there is greater phase synchrony within climatic zones than between them and show that external climatic forcing may act as a synchronizer. We simulated genetic drift by using data on population dynamics generated by the climate forcing of ecological and evolutionary patterns model, and we demonstrate that the observed genetic structuring can be seen as an emerging property of the spatiotemporal ecological dynamics.
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