Data from: Ecology and life history affect different aspects of the population structure of 27 high-alpine plants ...

• Main Authors: Meirmans, Patrick G., Goudet, Jerome, Consortium, IntraBioDiv, Gaggiotti, Oscar E.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2011
• Subjects: glacial refugia; Gentiana nivalis; redundancy analysis; Phyteuma hemisphaericum; Cerastium uniflorum; Hornungia alpina; Geum montanum; Dryas octopetala; Androsace obtusifolia; Arabis alpina; Peucedanum ostruthium; Loiseleuria procumbens; Luzula alpinopilosa; Alps; Ranunculus alpestris; Juncus trifidus; Cirsium spinosissimum; Geum reptans; Ligusticum mutellinoides; Campanula barbata; Gypsophila repens; Phyteuma betonicifolium; Saxifraga stellaris; Sesleria caerulea; Rhododendron ferrugineum; Trifolium alpinum; Hedysarum hedysaroides; Hypochaeris uniflora; AFLP; Holocene; Carex sempervirens; Carex firma
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f3rk4; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.f3rk4

A plant species' genetic population structure is the result of a complex combination of its life history, ecological preferences, position in the ecosystem, and historical factors. As a result, many different statistical methods exist that measure different aspects of species’ genetic structure. However, little is known about how these methods are interrelated and how they are related to a species’ ecology and life history. In this study, we used the IntraBioDiv AFLP-dataset from 27 high-alpine species to calculate eight genetic summary statistics that we jointly correlate to a set of six ecological and life-history traits. We found that there is a large amount of redundancy among the calculated summary statistics and that there is a significant association with the matrix of species traits. In a multivariate analysis, two main aspects of population structure were visible among the 27 species. The first aspect is related to the species’ dispersal capacities and the second is most likely related to the ... : Data Meirmans et al IntrabioDivThis data package contains the genetic marker data (Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms) for 27 high-alpine species from the European Alps, as well as the geographic coordinates of every sampling location. The data have been collected as a part of the European research project IntraBioDiv, lead by Pierre Taberlet. For a complete list of members of the consortium see the included file "Consortium.pdf". The IntraBioDiv project was supported by the Commission of the European Union Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems Programme - GOCE-CT-2003-505376. We are grateful that the members of the IntraBioDiv consortium allowed us to use their data and make it available to the scientific community. ...