Jeremy S. Johnson

TL;DR: Landscape genomics is a rapidly advancing research field that combines population genomics, landscape ecology, and spatial analytical techniques to explicitly quantify the effects of environmental heterogeneity on neutral and adaptive genetic variation and underlying processes.

TL;DR: The TDK concept is recommended to be extended to account for not only where seeds land, but also how that location affects the likelihood of establishing and producing a reproductive adult, i.e. the total effective dispersal kernel.

TL;DR: It is proposed that plant functional groups should be adopted as analytical units to reduce the complexity of seed dispersal to manageable levels and that the utility of these functional groups may be assessed by generating predictions based on the groups and then testing those predictions against species-specific data.

TL;DR: The evidence for rapid changes in seed dispersal traits is outlined, variability due to plasticity or genetics broadly is discussed broadly, and the specific traits and biological systems in which variability in dispersal is being studied are described, before discussing some of the potential underlying mechanisms.

TL;DR: In this paper , the feasibility of implementing Genetic Composition EBVs (Genetic EBVs), which are metrics of within-species genetic variation, is assessed. And the challenges of aggregation, standardization, and costs of operationalizing the Genetic EBVs, as well as future directions and opportunities to maximize their uptake globally in research and policy are discussed.