Possible questions to answer.
September 27, 2009by Tonje Stolpestad (tstolpes)
-by Tonje
Is using dna evidence (number of neutural mutations) a valid way of dating populations?
- Lee’s model from wolf paper says no
- Does geography change this?
- How does this respond to a changing geography (islands with changing bridges etc.)
- How would this respond to a disaster (flood, famine etc)? Will we loose important information? (My got feeling is yes)
- Who would care?
Will landbridges (over roads etc) and wildlife parks (which sort of functions as islands) affect species? If so how? Will we see a string founder effect here? Landscape Paper
- It feels like this will be easy to answer, my gut instinct says yes. Might be possible to tie into the previous question.
- Is it already answered?
- Model idea: two areas seperated by one or several roads. Compare what happens when you put land bridges in.
- Who would care? The WCS and WCS – living landscapes, other people who deal with wildlife conservation in relation to roads etc?
- We have chosen to focus on this ( Sun. Sept 27 09)
Other places to present/publish?
- Smith Colllaborations(“Celebrating Collaborations: Students and Faculty Working Together”). Small, poster and/or powerpoint presentations of research done by students. Will need to check of they will accept this as it is not completely Smith based. Is in the spring.