Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been the workhorse of research in phylogeography for
almost two decades. However, concerns with basing evolutionary interpretations on mtDNA …

Museums and other natural history collections (NHC) worldwide house millions of
specimens. With the advent of molecular genetic approaches these collections have …

Millions of migratory birds occupy seasonally favourable breeding grounds in the Arctic, but
we know little about the formation, maintenance and future of the migration routes of Arctic …

Understanding how and why lineages diversify is central to understanding the origins of
biological diversity. The avian family Falconidae (caracaras, forest-falcons, falcons) has an …

This book examines the concept of naturalness in ecosystems, discusses its values and
considers choices about the level of naturalness in conservation efforts. The author argues …

Detecting bottlenecks is a common task in molecular ecology. While several bottleneck
detection methods exist, evaluations of their power have focused only on severe bottlenecks …

The spatial distribution of genetic diversity is a product of recent and historical ecological
processes, as well as anthropogenic activities. A current challenge in population and …

In Canada, habitat loss has pushed many more species to the brink of extinction than
expected in a region with extensive wilderness. However, species richness gradients …

The critically endangered Madagascar fish‐eagle (Haliaeetus vociferoides) is considered to
be one of the rarest birds of prey globally and at significant risk of extinction. In the most …

Few studies have evaluated how effectively environmental contamination may reduce
genetic diversity of a population. Here, we chose a laboratory approach in order to test if …