Tests of the predictability of population genetic structure and change in wild animal populations

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Evolution is the result of changes in the genetic composition of populations through time. Many of the processes that cause population genetic change are intimately tied to ecological conditions. For example, environmental variation causes populations to drift apart genetically if it impedes movement and can cause populations to diverge adaptively if different traits are selected in different environments. Thus, understanding how ecology produces population genetic change is central to understanding evolutionary patterns in nature. My research integrates population genomics with evolutionary ecology to explain the ways that population genetic structures form, persist, collapse, and change through time. I willuse the colonisations of cities by grey squirrels (