Population ecology has matured to a sophisticated science with astonishing potential for
contributing solutions to wildlife conservation and management challenges. And yet, much …

Loss of biodiversity is among the greatest problems facing the world today. Conservation
and the Genetics of Populations gives a comprehensive overview of the essential …

To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of
wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and …

Genetic data can provide a powerful tool for those interested in the ecology and
management of wildlife, especially when it is combined with behavioral, demographic, or …

One of the greatest unmet challenges in conservation biology is the genetic management of
fragmented populations of threatened animal and plant species. More than a million small …

GLOSSARY evolution Biological and physical processes leading to heritable change in
characteristics of populations or species over time. Key agents of evolutionary change are …

The purpose of population management is to ensure that populations of species of our
choosing are available, healthy, and viable for the foreseeable future. Thus, the contribution …

Biodiversity is under threat worldwide. Over the past decade, the field of population
genomics has developed across nonmodel organisms, and the results of this research have …

About 50 y ago, Crow and Kimura [An Introduction to Population Genetics Theory (1970)]
and Ohta and Kimura [Genet. Res. 22, 201–204 (1973)] laid the foundations of conservation …

Conservation biology is a new and developing science, a product of the late 1970's and
early 1980's when ecologists first gathered in mutual recognition of an impending biological …