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Genetic bottlenecks threaten the long-term viability of endangered populations by eroding diversity and increasing inbreeding. This comprehensive guid...
Conservation genetics has moved beyond counting alleles. For practitioners managing small or fragmented populations, the real challenge is linking gen...
You have a population of 200 individuals, stable for a decade, but its genetic diversity is a fraction of what it was. You know that without intervent...
A small, isolated population of Petroica traversi on an offshore island has been stable at 40 breeding pairs for a decade. No obvious habitat threat, ...
Epigenetic variation is not yet a standard input in population viability analysis, but a growing number of conservation genetics teams are finding tha...
A fragmented ecosystem is not just a spatial problem—it is a genetic one. When a continuous population breaks into isolated demes, the invisible curre...
Introduction: The Silent Archive Beneath Our FeetIn my practice, I often describe ancient environmental DNA (eDNA) as the most democratic archive we h...
Beyond the Phenotype: Why We Missed the Signal for DecadesFor the first decade of my career in conservation genetics, I, like most of my colleagues, w...