1 Supplementary Material 2 3 Table S1: Inferred population genetic structure using data sets consisting of juvenile red deer and 4 adults of different sexes. Inferred K=1: no sub-structure inferred, K=2: two genetic clusters inferred. 5 The individual assignment results are presented in Fig. S7. Algorithm STRUCTURE Settings Not considering sampling locations STRUCTURE Using sampling locations as priors GENELAND Admixture model BAPS spatial 6 7 1 Data set Adult males Adult females juveniles Adult males Adult females juveniles Adult males Adult females juveniles Adult males Adult females juveniles Inferred K 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 3 4 5 50 1 no. of genetic clusters 2 3 4 5 no. of genetic clusters -13500 -12500 -13000 log-likelihood -12000 (d) -12500 (c) log-likelihood DeltaK 40 30 20 10 0 DeltaK log-likelihood 150 100 50 1 -38000 -37000 -36000 -35000 (a) (b) -36400 -36000 -35600 -35200 log-likelihood (a) 1 2 3 4 5 1 no. of genetic clusters 2 3 4 5 no. of genetic clusters 8 9 Figure S1: Inference of genetic clusters in the study region using the STRUCTURE algorithm for the 10 red deer (a & b) and wild boar (c & d) dataset both not using (a & c) and using (b & d) sampling 11 location as a prior. STRUCTURE was run using the admixture and correlated allele frequencies 12 models. 13 14 15 16 2 17 18 Figure S2: Modal assignment of red deer to the two clusters (grey and black dots) inferred using 19 programme GENELAND. Admixture values were averaged across the ten best-supported runs. Blue = 20 motorway; Dark Green = other roads; Light green= forests; solid black = political borders. 21 22 23 24 3 25 26 27 28 29 Fig. S3: Analysis of the genetic composition of the 10 sub-samples of the red deer dataset consisting of 450 individuals each, using a standard STRUCTURE analysis without sampling locations as priors. The log-likelihood values (left) inferred the presence of two populations for each subsample (average log-likelihood value for K=2> average log-likelihood value for K=1). Log-likelihood values and bar plots (right) with the same number correspond to each other. STRUCTURE was run with the admixture and correlated allele frequency models. 4 30 31 32 33 34 Fig. S4: Analysis of the genetic composition of the 10 sub-samples of the red deer dataset consisting of 300 individuals each, using a standard STRUCTURE analysis without sampling locations as priors. Log-likelihood values (right) and bar plots (right) with the same number correspond to each other. The STRUCTURE runs where the log-likelihood values inferred the presence of two populations are highlighted with an asterisk (average loglikelihood value for K=2> average log-likelihood value for K=1). STRUCTURE was run with the admixture and correlated allele frequency models. 5 35 36 37 38 39 Fig. S5: Analysis of the genetic composition of the 10 sub-samples of the red deer dataset consisting of 200 individuals each, using a standard STRUCTURE analysis without sampling locations as priors. Log-likelihood values (right) and bar plots (right) with the same number correspond to each other. The one STRUCTURE run where the log-likelihood values inferred the presence of two populations are highlighted with an asterisk (average loglikelihood value for K=2> average log-likelihood value for K=1). STRUCTURE was run with the admixture and correlated allele frequency models. 6 40 41 42 43 44 Fig. S6: Analysis of the genetic composition of the 10 sub-samples of the red deer dataset consisting of 100 individuals each, using a standard STRUCTURE analysis without sampling locations as priors. Log-likelihood values (right) and bar plots (right) with the same number correspond to each other. The log-likelihood values do not provide statistical support for the presence of population genetics structure (average log-likelihood value for K=2 < average log-likelihood value for K=1). STRUCTURE was run with the admixture and correlated allele frequency models. 7 45 46 47 48 49 Fig. S7: Analysis of the genetic composition of the 10 sub-samples of the red deer dataset consisting of 450 individuals each, using a STRUCTURE analysis with sampling locations as priors. The log-likelihood values (left) inferred the presence of two populations for each sub-sample (average loglikelihood value for K=2> average log-likelihood value for K=1). Log-likelihood values and bar plots (right) with the same number correspond to each other. STRUCTURE was run with the admixture and correlated allele frequency models. 8 50 51 52 53 54 Fig. S8: Analysis of the genetic composition of the 10 sub-samples of the red deer dataset consisting of 300 individuals each, using a STRUCTURE analysis with sampling locations as priors. The log-likelihood values (left) inferred the presence of two populations for each sub-sample (average loglikelihood value for K=2> average log-likelihood value for K=1). Log-likelihood values and bar plots (right) with the same number correspond to each other. STRUCTURE was run with the admixture and correlated allele frequency models. 9 55 56 57 58 59 Fig. S9: Analysis of the genetic composition of the 10 sub-samples of the red deer dataset consisting of 200 individuals each, using a STRUCTURE analysis with sampling locations as priors. The log-likelihood values (left) inferred the presence of two populations for each sub-sample (average loglikelihood value for K=2> average log-likelihood value for K=1). Log-likelihood values and bar plots (right) with the same number correspond to each other. STRUCTURE was run with the admixture and correlated allele frequency models. 10 60 61 62 63 64 Fig. S10: Analysis of the genetic composition of the 10 sub-samples of the red deer dataset consisting of 100 individuals each, using a STRUCTURE analysis with sampling locations as priors. The STRUCTURE runs where the log-likelihood values (left) inferred the presence of two populations are highlighted with an asterisk (average log-likelihood value for K=2> average log-likelihood value for K=1). Log-likelihood values and bar plots (right) with the same number correspond to each other. STRUCTURE was run with the admixture and correlated allele frequency models. 65 11 66 67 68 Fig. S11: Analysis of the genetic composition of sub-samples of the red deer dataset. Bar plots are 69 shown for the GENELAND analyses that inferred the presence of two clusters in datasets consisting of 70 (a) 200, (b) 300 and (c) 450 individuals. 71 72 73 74 12 75 76 77 Fig. S12: Analysis of the genetic composition of sub-samples of the red deer dataset. Bar plots with 78 modal assignments of individuals to populations are shown for the BAPS analyses that – taking 79 account of the spatial coordinates – inferred the presence of two clusters in datasets consisting of (a) 80 300 and (b) 450 individuals. 81 13 82 83 84 Fig. S13: Analysis of the genetic composition of sub-samples of the red deer dataset consisting of 85 juveniles only and of adults of different sexes. Bar plots are shown only for analyses that inferred the 86 presence of two clusters in the datasets.(a) STRUCTURE analysis without sampling locations as priors; 87 (b)STRUCTURE analyses with sampling locations as priors for (b) adult males, (c) adult females and (d) 88 juveniles; Geneland analyses for (e) adult males, (f) juveniles; spatial BAPS analysis for (g) juveniles. 89 STRUCTURE was run with the admixture and correlated allele frequency models. 14