Background Threatened species often have small and isolated populations where mating
among relatives can result in inbreeding depression increasing extinction risk. Effective …

Populations with higher genetic diversity and larger effective sizes have greater evolutionary
capacity (ie, adaptive potential) to respond to ecological stressors. We are interested in how …

Habitat fragmentation is the phenomenon that large, continuous habitat was destroyed into
several spatially distant patchy habitats. Genetic effects of habitat fragmentation on plant …

Conservation genetics focuses on understanding the role and requirement of genetic
variation for population persistence. However, considerable debate now surrounds the role …

In contrast to the goals of the symposium from which this series of papers originated, we
argue that attempts to apply unambiguously defined and general management unit criteria …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 9–18 Abstract Interest in ecological speciation is growing, as
evidence accumulates showing that natural selection can lead to rapid divergence between …

I discuss future challenges and opportunities in genetic approaches to biodiversity
conservation. Resolving taxonomy uncertainties and identifying diverged evolutionary units …