Recent advances in the application of stock identification methods have revealed
inconsistencies between the spatial structure of biological populations and the definition of …

Partial migration, where only some individuals from a population migrate, has been widely
reported in a diverse range of animals. In this paper, what is known about the causes and …

By providing new approaches to the investigation of demographic and evolutionary
dynamics of wild populations, molecular genetics has led to fundamental changes in our …

An essential prerequisite of a sustainable fisheries management is the matching of
biologically relevant processes and management action. In fisheries management and …

Genetic stochasticity due to small population size contributes to population extinction,
especially when population fragmentation disrupts gene flow. Estimates of effective …

The world's oceans are currently facing major stressors in the form of overexploitation and
anthropogenic climate change. The Baltic Sea was home to the first “industrial” fishery∼ 800 …

Partial migration, where populations are composed of both migratory and resident
individuals, is extremely widespread across the animal kingdom. Researchers studying fish …

Migration is a widespread but highly diverse component of many animal life histories. Fish
migrate throughout the world's oceans, within lakes and rivers, and between the two realms …

High gene flow is considered the norm for most marine organisms and is expected to limit
their ability to adapt to local environments. Few studies have directly compared the patterns …

Knowledge of geographic and temporal scales of adaptive genetic variation is crucial to
species conservation, yet understanding of these phenomena, particularly in marine …