Amanda Mancini

CUNY Graduate Center | CUNY · Program in Anthropology

Landscape genetics is an emerging field that integrates population genetics, landscape ecology, and spatial statistics to investigate how geographical and environmental features and evolutionary processes such as gene flow, genetic drift, and selection structure genetic variation at both the population and individual levels, with implications for e...

Madagascar has experienced extensive deforestation and overharvesting, and anthropogenic climate change will compound these pressures. Anticipating these threats to endangered species and their ecosystems requires considering both climate change and habitat loss effects. The genus Varecia (ruffed lemurs), which is composed of two Critically Endange...

In recent decades Madagascar has experienced significant habitat loss and modification, with minimal understanding of how human land use practices have impacted the evolution of its flora and fauna. In light of ongoing and intensifying anthropogenic pressures, we seek new insight into mechanisms driving genetic variability on this island, using a C...

Habitat loss and fragmentation are among the greatest extinction threats to species worldwide. Large, continuous tracts of forest- such as those found in national parks- are considered crucial for protecting biodiversity and maintaining population cohesion and genetic variability across taxa. We sought to determine the efficacy with which a nationa...

Background/Question/Methods Productivity of Cladophora glomerata, a filamentous green alga native to the Laurentian Great Lakes, has increased in the past twenty years with the introduction of exotic zebra mussels, and has significantly impacted nearshore and shoreline communities. Much of our understanding of this nuisance algae comes from coars...