BACKGROUND Differences among species in their ability to adapt to environmental change
threaten biodiversity, human health, food security, and natural resource availability …

Plant conservation genetics provides tools to guide conservation and restoration efforts,
measure and monitor success, and ultimately minimize extinction risk by conserving species …

Defaunation, the loss or population decline of medium and large native vertebrates
represents a significant threat to the biodiversity of tropical ecosystems. Here we review the …

Climate change affects individual organisms by altering development, physiology, behavior,
and fitness, and populations by altering genetic and phenotypic composition, vital rates, and …

Evolutionary principles are now routinely incorporated into medicine and agriculture.
Examples include the design of treatments that slow the evolution of resistance by weeds …

Anthropogenic impacts increasingly drive ecological and evolutionary processes at many
spatio‐temporal scales, demanding greater capacity to predict and manage their …

Experimental studies of evolution performed in nature and the associated demonstration of
rapid evolution, observable on a time scale of months to years, were an acclaimed novelty in …

The field of conservation aims to protect biodiversity—the diversity of life on earth in all its
forms. Traditional conservation objectives and measures have already been expanded and …

We are witnessing a global, but unplanned, evolutionary experiment with the biodiversity of
the planet. Anthropogenic disturbances such as habitat degradation and climate change …

Co** with anthropogenic environmental change is among the greatest challenges faced
by wildlife, and endocrine flexibility is a potentially crucial co** mechanism. Animals may …