The identification of population bottlenecks is critical in conservation because populations
that have experienced significant reductions in abundance are subject to a variety of genetic …

The massive number of seabirds (penguins and procellariiformes) and marine mammals
(cetaceans and pinnipeds)–referred to here as top predators–is one of the most iconic …

Human evolution has clearly been shaped by gene–culture interactions, and there is
growing evidence that similar processes also act on populations of non-human animals …

Profound knowledge of demographic history is a prerequisite for the understanding and
inference of processes involved in the evolution of population differentiation and speciation …

A central paradigm in conservation biology is that population bottlenecks reduce genetic
diversity and population viability. In an era of biodiversity loss and climate change …

Local drivers are human activities or processes that occur in specific locations, and cause
physical or ecological change at the local or regional scale. Here, we consider marine and …

Inferring the demographic history of species and their populations is crucial to understand
their contemporary distribution, abundance and adaptations. The high computational …

Extreme and remote environments provide useful settings to test ideas about the ecological
and evolutionary drivers of biological diversity. In the sub‐A ntarctic, isolation by geographic …

Abstract The South American fur seal (SAFS), Arctocephalus australis, was severely
depleted during the 18th century. This work updates information on distribution, abundance …

Endangered species that exist in small isolated populations are at elevated risk of losing
adaptive variation due to genetic drift. Analyses that estimate short‐term effective population …