Evolution. 2013 Dec;67(12):3383-5. doi: 10.1111/evo.12278.
The main objective of this special section is not to review the broad field of landscape genetics, but to provide a glimpse of how the developing landscape genetics perspective has the potential to change the way we study evolution. Evolutionary landscape genetics is the study of how migration and population structure affects evolutionary processes. As a field it dates back to Sewall Wright and the origin of theoretical population genetics, but empirical tests of adaptive processes of evolution in natural landscapes have been rare. Now, with recent developments in technology, methodology, and modeling tools, we are poised to trace adaptive genetic variation across space and through time. Not only will we see more empirical tests of classical theory, we can expect to see new phenomena emerging, as we reveal complex interactions among evolutionary processes as they unfold in natural landscapes.
本特刊的主要目的不是综述景观遗传学这一广阔领域，而是让大家了解正在发展的景观遗传学视角具有改变我们研究进化方式的潜力。进化景观遗传学研究的是迁移和种群结构如何影响进化过程。该领域可以追溯到 Sewall Wright 和理论种群遗传学的起源，但在自然景观中对进化的适应性过程进行实证检验却很少见。如今，随着技术、方法和建模工具的最新发展，我们有望在空间和时间上追踪适应性遗传变异。我们不仅将看到更多对经典理论的实证检验，还可以预期会出现新的现象，因为我们揭示了在自然景观中展开的进化过程之间复杂的相互作用。
