It is widely thought that small populations should have less additive genetic variance and
respond less efficiently to natural selection than large populations. Across taxa, we meta …

Abstract The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List is an important
and widely used tool for conservation assessment. The IUCN uses information about a …

In community ecology, drift refers to random births and deaths in a population. In microbial
ecology, drift is estimated indirectly via community snapshots but in this way, it is almost …

Industrial activities have produced profound changes in the natural environment, including
the mass removal of trees, fragmentation of habitats, and creation of larval mosquito …

Understanding how natural selection generates and maintains adaptive genetic diversity in
heterogeneous environments is key to predicting the evolutionary response of populations …

Broad‐scale patterns of genetic diversity for Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis remain poorly
understood across their endemic range in the eastern United States. We characterized …

Genetic rescue is an increasingly considered conservation measure to address genetic
erosion associated with habitat loss and fragmentation. The resulting gene flow from …

Understanding how genetic diversity is distributed across spatiotemporal scales in species
of conservation or management concern is critical for identifying large‐scale mechanisms …

The effective population size (Ne) is a central factor in determining maintenance of genetic
variation. The neutral theory predicts that loss of variation depends on Ne, with less genetic …

Predicting the persistence of species under climate change is an increasingly important
objective in ecological research and management. However, biotic and abiotic …