Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition

S Hoban, FI Archer, LD Bertola, JG Bragg… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

Opportunities and challenges of macrogenetic studies

DM Leigh, CB van Rees, KL Millette, MF Breed… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The rapidly emerging field of macrogenetics focuses on analysing publicly accessible
genetic datasets from thousands of species to explore large-scale patterns and predictors of …

Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene

M Exposito-Alonso, TR Booker, L Czech, L Gillespie… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Anthropogenic habitat loss and climate change are reducing species' geographic ranges,
increasing extinction risk and losses of species' genetic diversity. Although preserving …

Genetic diversity and IUCN Red List status

C Schmidt, S Hoban, M Hunter, I Paz‐Vinas… - Conservation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies

L Dapporto, M Menchetti, R Vodă… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation Butterflies represent a model in biology and a flagship group for invertebrate
conservation. We provide four new resources for the Western Palaearctic butterflies:(1) an …

Comparative phylogeography in the genomic age: Opportunities and challenges

A McGaughran, L Liggins, KA Marske… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We consider the opportunities and challenges comparative phylogeography (CP) faces
in the genomic age to determine:(1) how we can maximise the potential of big CP analyses …

Using temporal genomics to understand contemporary climate change responses in wildlife

EL Jensen, DM Leigh - Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Monitoring the evolutionary responses of species to ongoing global climate change is critical
for informing conservation. Population genomic studies that use samples from multiple time …

The Coalition for Conservation Genetics: Working across organizations to build capacity and achieve change in policy and practice

F Kershaw, MW Bruford, WC Funk… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Coalition for Conservation Genetics (CCG) brings together four eminent
organizations with the shared goal of improving the integration of genetic information into …

Global patterns and drivers of genetic diversity among marine habitat‐forming species

L Figuerola‐Ferrando, A Barreiro… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Intraspecific genetic diversity is one of the pillars of biodiversity, supporting the
resilience and evolutionary potential of populations. Yet, our knowledge regarding the …

A new genomic resource to enable standardized surveys of SNPs across the native range of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)

NR Mamoozadeh, AR Whiteley… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how genetic diversity is distributed across spatiotemporal scales in species
of conservation or management concern is critical for identifying large‐scale mechanisms …