Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition

S Hoban, FI Archer, LD Bertola, JG Bragg… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

Opportunities and challenges of macrogenetic studies

DM Leigh, CB van Rees, KL Millette, MF Breed… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The rapidly emerging field of macrogenetics focuses on analysing publicly accessible
genetic datasets from thousands of species to explore large-scale patterns and predictors of …

Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene

M Exposito-Alonso, TR Booker, L Czech, L Gillespie… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Anthropogenic habitat loss and climate change are reducing species' geographic ranges,
increasing extinction risk and losses of species' genetic diversity. Although preserving …

Genetic diversity and IUCN Red List status

C Schmidt, S Hoban, M Hunter, I Paz‐Vinas… - Conservation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List is an important
and widely used tool for conservation assessment. The IUCN uses information about a …

The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies

L Dapporto, M Menchetti, R Vodă… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation Butterflies represent a model in biology and a flagship group for invertebrate
conservation. We provide four new resources for the Western Palaearctic butterflies:(1) an …

Mind the lag: understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation

R Gargiulo, KB Budde, M Heuertz - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - cell.com
The delay between disturbance events and genetic responses within populations is a
common but surprisingly overlooked phenomenon in ecology and evolutionary and …

The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages for West Palearctic butterflies

L Dapporto, M Menchetti, V Dincă, G Talavera… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The interplay between geographic barriers and climatic oscillations over the past 2.6 million
years structured genetic variation at the continental scale. The genetic legacy of the …

Comparative phylogeography in the genomic age: Opportunities and challenges

A McGaughran, L Liggins, KA Marske… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We consider the opportunities and challenges comparative phylogeography (CP) faces
in the genomic age to determine:(1) how we can maximise the potential of big CP analyses …

The Coalition for Conservation Genetics: Working across organizations to build capacity and achieve change in policy and practice

F Kershaw, MW Bruford, WC Funk… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Coalition for Conservation Genetics (CCG) brings together four eminent
organizations with the shared goal of improving the integration of genetic information into …

Global determinants of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity

CM French, LD Bertola, AC Carnaval… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding global patterns of genetic diversity is essential for describing, monitoring,
and preserving life on Earth. To date, efforts to map macrogenetic patterns have been …