In this time of unprecedented global change, infectious diseases will impact humans and
wildlife in novel and unknown ways. Climate change, the introduction of invasive species …

In the last two centuries, the development of human civilization has transformed large
natural areas into anthropogenic landscapes, making habitat fragmentation a pervasive …

Background The Neotropical avifauna is more diverse than that of any other biogeographic
region, but our understanding of patterns of regional divergence is limited. Critical …

The dynamics of the Atlantic Rainforest loss and recovery are still not fully understood
despite its long history of human occupation. In this study, we investigated changes in an …

A recent paper in Molecular Ecology by Jost (2008) seriously questions the merit of the
widely used GST statistic and its derivatives as measures of genetic differentiation. This has …

A fundamental need in conserving species and their habitats is defining distinct entities that
range from individuals to species to ecosystems and beyond (Table; Ryder …

Chilo suppressalis (Walker) displays significant geographical differences in ecological
preference that may be congruent with patterns of molecular variation. To test this, we …

The complex landscape history of the Neotropics has generated opportunities for population
isolation and diversification that place this region among the most species-rich in the world …

Although the recent emergence of the field of landscape genetics has led to several studies
investigating the effects of habitat composition between populations on genetic …

Habitat fragmentation is one of the most severe threats to biodiversity as it may lead to
changes in population genetic structure, with ultimate modifications of species evolutionary …