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Biogeoinformatics

2014
Talks

Abstract

GIScience methods and geodata may contribute to the elaboration of efficient decision‐making approaches to favor the conservation of plant/animal genetic diversity and to favor the advancement of our understanding of mechanisms controlling the evolution of species (adaptation to local environment in particular). Since 2001, a group of landscape genetics at LASIG/EPFL immersed in the evolutionary biology community. A sustainable collaboration with biologists, geneticists, vets, geneticitsts, etc. enabled a real appropriation of the domain (molecular ecology). These transdisciplinary efforts - versus punctual unsignificant interdisciplinary periods of service exchange - permitted to extract the best from GIScience - spatial analysis and geocomputation in particular - to serve evolutionary biology.

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2014
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Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/2d33b216-aa62-4c7d-8554-366222dc7331

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Evolutionary thought, the recognition that species change over time and the perceived understanding of how such processes work, has roots in antiquity—in the ideas of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Church Fathers as well as in medieval Islamic science.

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