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 …

The stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini): a review of the current threats to their survival

E Toledo-Hernández, G Peña-Chora… - Apidologie, 2022 - Springer
Pollination by insects is an essential service for the conservation of plant biodiversity, since it
increases the rate of fertilization of flowers and therefore increases the quality and quantity …

Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses

K Maebe, AF Hart, L Marshall… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bumblebees are ubiquitous, cold‐adapted eusocial bees found worldwide from subarctic to
tropical regions of the world. They are key pollinators in most temperate and boreal …

Harnessing the omics revolution to address the global biodiversity crisis

LF De León, B Silva, KJ Avilés-Rodríguez… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Human disturbances are driving the current biodiversity crisis.•Fundamental
biodiversity challenges include biodiversity discovery, loss, and preservation.•The omics …

The use and misuse of regression models in landscape genetic analyses

WE Peterman, NS Pope - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The field of landscape genetics has been rapidly evolving, adopting and adapting analytical
frameworks to address research questions. Current studies are increasingly using …

A comparison of popular approaches to optimize landscape resistance surfaces

WE Peterman, KJ Winiarski, CE Moore, CS Carvalho… - Landscape …, 2019 - Springer
Context Landscape resistance surfaces are often used to address questions related to
movement, dispersal, or population connectivity. However, modeling landscape resistance …

Urbanization reduces gene flow but not genetic diversity of stream salamander populations in the New York City metropolitan area

NA Fusco, E Pehek… - Evolutionary Applications, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Natural landscape heterogeneity and barriers resulting from urbanization can reduce
genetic connectivity between populations. The evolutionary, demographic, and ecological …

Biotic and abiotic stresses on honeybee health

Z Lin, S Shen, K Wang, T Ji - Integrative Zoology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Honeybees are the most critical pollinators providing key ecosystem services that underpin
crop production and sustainable agriculture. Amidst a backdrop of rapid global change, this …

Integrative population genetics and metagenomics reveals urbanization increases pathogen loads and decreases connectivity in a wild bee

KD Chau, F Samad‐zada, EP Kelemen… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As urbanization continues to increase, it is expected that two‐thirds of the human population
will reside in cities by 2050. Urbanization fragments and degrades natural landscapes …

Ecological, genetic and evolutionary drivers of regional genetic differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana

AR Castilla, B Méndez-Vigo, A Marcer… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2020 - Springer
Background Disentangling the drivers of genetic differentiation is one of the cornerstones in
evolution. This is because genetic diversity, and the way in which it is partitioned within and …