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DATA ASSESSIBILITY
Sampling locations, environmental data, morphometric data, and SNP data are available on Dryad at DOI:10.5061/dryad.m129c0s.
TABLES & FIGURES
Table 1. GDM results using genomic data and environmental variables across all models. P-values and relative importance of significant variables in modeling of both pairwise FSTvalues and genetic dissimilarity based on presence or absence of a SNP at a particular geographic site.