Human harvest of animals in the wild occurs in terrestrial and aquatic habitats throughout
the world and is often intense. Harvest has the potential to cause three types of genetic …

By providing new approaches to the investigation of demographic and evolutionary
dynamics of wild populations, molecular genetics has led to fundamental changes in our …

DNA degradation, low DNA concentrations and primer‐site mutations may result in the
incorrect assignment of microsatellite genotypes, potentially biasing population genetic …

Allee effects are (broadly) defined as a decline in individual fitness at low population size or
density. They can result in critical population thresholds below which populations crash to …

While population declines can drive the loss of genetic diversity under some circumstances,
it has been unclear whether this loss is a general consequence of overharvest in highly …

Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes is the first integrated review of the reproductive
biology of the bony fishes, which are the most species-rich and diversified group of …

Genetic stochasticity due to small population size contributes to population extinction,
especially when population fragmentation disrupts gene flow. Estimates of effective …

Effective population size (Ne) determines the strength of genetic drift in a population and has
long been recognized as an important parameter for evaluating conservation status and …

Microsatellites represent codominant molecular genetic markers, which are ubiquitously
distributed within genomes. Due to their high level of polymorphism, relatively small size and …

Networks of no-take reserves are important for protecting coral reef biodiversity from climate
change and other human impacts. Ensuring that reserve populations are connected to each …