Identifying and monitoring locally adaptive genetic variation can have direct utility for
conserving species at risk, especially when management may include actions such as …

Climatic changes have had significant impacts on marine ecosystems, including apex
predators such as cetaceans. A more complete understanding of the potential impacts of …

Seascape genetics, a term coined in 2006, is a fast growing area of population genetics that
draws on ecology, oceanography and geography to address challenges in basic …

Planet Earth is entering the age of megafire, pushing ecosystems to their limits and beyond.
While fire causes mortality of animals across vast portions of the globe, scientists are only …

Understanding how natural populations will respond to rapid anthropogenic climate change
is one of the greatest challenges for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. Much research …

With the high rate of ecosystem change, effective systematic conservation planning must
account for ongoing and imminent threats to biodiversity to ensure its persistence …

The importance of dispersal rates and distances has long been appreciated by ecologists
and evolutionary biologists. An emerging field of research is revealing how temporal …

Climate change is increasingly impacting ecosystems globally. Understanding adaptive
genetic diversity and whether it will keep pace with projected climatic change is necessary to …

The genetic swam** hypothesis proposes that gene flow from central to peripheral
populations inhibits local adaptation and is one of the most widely recognized explanations …

Conservation translocations (reintroductions, reinforcements, ecological replacements, and
assisted colonization) have played a vital and necessary role in conserving endangered …