highly significantp ‐value < .001
The correlation between the pairwise genetic distances predicted by the best simulated model and the empirical genetic distances estimated with Chord distance is highly significant (Spearman's correlation = 0.65; Mantel's test p ‐value < .001; R 2 : 0.34, p ‐value < .001) as well as with F ST (Spearman's correlation = 0.59; Mantel's test p ‐value < .001; R 2 : 0.40, p ‐value < .001; Figure 6 ).