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Brenna R. Forester

US Fish and Wildlife Service
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Redundancy analysis: A Swiss Army Knife for landscape genomics

T Capblancq, BR Forester - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape genomics identifies how spatial and environmental factors structure the amount
and distribution of genetic variation among populations. Landscape genomic analyses have …

Guidelines for planning genomic assessment and monitoring of locally adaptive variation to inform species conservation

SP Flanagan, BR Forester, EK Latch… - Evolutionary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying and monitoring locally adaptive genetic variation can have direct utility for
conserving species at risk, especially when management may include actions such as …

Improving conservation policy with genomics: a guide to integrating adaptive potential into US Endangered Species Act decisions for conservation practitioners and …

WC Funk, BR Forester, SJ Converse, C Darst… - Conservation …, 2019 - Springer
Rapid environmental change makes adaptive potential—the capacity of populations to evolve
genetically based changes in response to selection—more important than ever for long-…

Comparing methods for detecting multilocus adaptation with multivariate genotype–environment associations

BR Forester, JR Lasky, HH Wagner… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying adaptive loci can provide insight into the mechanisms underlying local adaptation.
Genotype–environment association ( GEA ) methods, which identify these loci based on …

Detecting spatial genetic signatures of local adaptation in heterogeneous landscapes

BR Forester, MR Jones, S Joost, EL Landguth… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The spatial structure of the environment (eg the configuration of habitat patches) may play an
important role in determining the strength of local adaptation. However, previous studies of …

Linking evolutionary potential to extinction risk: applications and future directions

BR Forester, EA Beever, C Darst… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Extinction‐risk assessments play a major role in prioritizing conservation action at national
and international levels. However, quantifying extinction risk is challenging, especially when …

High performance computation of landscape genomic models including local indicators of spatial association

…, P Orozco‐terWengel, BR Forester… - Molecular Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… The analyses used a subset of the simulation data generated by Forester et al. (2016) who
… is at identifying the predictor that is driving selection (Forester et al. 2016). The GEA index …

Integrating ensemble species distribution modelling and statistical phylogeography to inform projections of climate change impacts on species distributions

BR Forester, EG DeChaine… - Diversity and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… & BR Forester, unpublished data). Determining how past climate change has influenced the
diversification of these lineages can help us understand how anthropogenic climate change …

Recent advances in conservation and population genomics data analysis

…, T Antao, L Bernatchez, BR Forester… - Evolutionary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
New computational methods and next‐generation sequencing (NGS) approaches have
enabled the use of thousands or hundreds of thousands of genetic markers to address …

Combining genotype, phenotype, and environmental data to delineate site‐adjusted provenance strategies for ecological restoration

CS Carvalho, BR Forester, SK Mitre… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… et al., 2018), provide a good compromise between detection power and error rates, and
are robust to a variety of sampling designs and underlying demographic models (Forester et al.…