Code and data for: How might translocation distance limits affect outbreeding-depression-mediated hatching success in the gopher tortoise?

However, long-distance translocation is not always successful. One potential challenge to partially translocated populations is outbreeding depression, where divergent parental genomes combine to produce offspring with reduced fitness.

Here, we use a simulation framework to examine the effects of a previously documented negative association between nest hatching success and the geographic distance between parents’ source populations in a translocated population of gopher tortoises (<i>Gopherus polyphemus</i>) in Florida, USA. We found that mean hatching success at simulated translocation recipient sites was, in most cases, similar regardless of management rules, and that hatching success is largely predicted to lie within the range of observed rates from natural populations.