Molecular ecology has become one of the key tools in the modern conservationist's kit. Here
we review three areas where molecular ecology has been applied to amphibian …

One of the most important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity in the United States,
California is home to many endemic amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else on earth …

Urbanization is a severe form of habitat fragmentation that can cause many species to be
locally extirpated and many others to become trapped and isolated within an urban matrix …

Understanding how specific environmental factors shape gene flow while disentangling their
importance relative to the effects of geographical isolation is a major question in …

A critical consideration when using molecular ecological methods to detect trends and
parameterize models at very fine spatial and temporal scales has always been the technical …

Anthropogenic habitat fragmentation has altered the distribution and population sizes in
many organisms worldwide. For this reason, understanding the demographic and genetic …

Avoiding extinction in a rapidly changing environment often relies on a species' ability to
quickly adapt in the face of extreme selective pressures. In Panamá, two closely related …

Effective conservation and management of pond‐breeding amphibians depends on the
accurate estimation of population structure, demographic parameters, and the influence of …

Aim Describing the landscape variables that accurately reflect how environmental and
topographic variations affect population connectivity and demography is a major goal of …

For a scientific discipline to be interdisciplinary, it must satisfy two conditions; it must consist
of contributions from at least two existing disciplines, and it must be able to provide insights …