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It is shown that an inverse power law adequately describes the dispersion of airborne pollen over short distances. Two consequences of such a model are that the range of gene flow is inversely proportional to the square root of the population density, and that it is dependent upon spatial pattern; the range of gene flow decreases as the average nearest neighbour distance decreases with or without concomitant population density increase.
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Gleaves, J. Gene flow mediated by wind-borne pollen. Heredity 31, 355–366 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1973.91
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