The following fun comes from Steven M. Chambers' Spatial Structure, Genetic Variation, and the Neighborhood Adjustment to Population Size. Conservation Biology 9(5): 1312-1315. No harm is meant to Mr. Chambers' original article, he just used lots of lines to play with--->
example: making fun of people living in a red-neck place "Fragmentation can reduce local population size to an extent that demographic instability and dangerous levels of inbreeding may occur."
example:why there's always very interesting people in your neighborhood, even if your township seems mostly the same: "Effective subdivisions may retard the rate of loss of overall variation, but there are limits and exceptional conditions determined by among population migration and extinction rates."
example: why you should marry your neighbor: "The size of a neighborhood... was intended to approximate the effective size of the local random-mating unit within a continously distributed population."
:) WIN.
I like that last one :)
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