The Anthropocene has witnessed catastrophic amphibian declines across the globe. A
multitude of new, primarily human‐induced drivers of decline may lead to extinction, but can …

Simple Summary Threatened animal species live in small and isolated populations, often
with a reduced number of individuals and reduced genetic diversity. In this review, we …

Describing the evolutionary dynamics of now extinct populations is challenging, as their
genetic composition before extinction is generally unknown. The Glanville fritillary butterfly …

The relation among inbreeding, heterozygosity, and fitness has been studied primarily
among outbred populations, and little is known about these phenomena in endangered …

We investigated inbreeding depression and genetic load in a small (N e∼ 100) population
of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia), which has been completely isolated on a …

Assessing how genetic diversity is spatially structured underlies many research questions in
evolutionary ecology and contributes to understanding the factors implicated in population …

Documenting and preserving the genetic diversity of populations, which conditions their long‐
term survival, have become a major issue in conservation biology. The loss of diversity often …

Populations that have suffered from genetic erosion are expected to exhibit reduced
average trait values or decreased variation in adaptive traits when experiencing periodic or …

The genetic diversity of populations, which contributes greatly to their adaptive potential, is
negatively affected by anthropogenic habitat fragmentation and destruction. However …

Peripheral populations of wide-ranging species are often of special conservation concern,
and knowledge of genetic diversity, gene flow, and historical population dynamics are …