The confounding effects of population structure, genetic diversity and the sampling scheme on the detection and quantification of population size changes

L Chikhi, VC Sousa, P Luisi, B Goossens… - Genetics, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The idea that molecular data should contain information on the recent evolutionary history of
populations is rather old. However, much of the work carried out today owes to the work of …

Albatrosses, eagles and newts, Oh My!: exceptions to the prevailing paradigm concerning genetic diversity and population viability?

DH Reed - Animal Conservation, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous recent papers have demonstrated a central role for genetic factors in the
extinction process or have documented the importance of gene flow in reversing population …

Navigating the pitfalls and promise of landscape genetics

JL Richardson, SP Brady, IJ Wang, SF Spear - 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The field of landscape genetics has been evolving rapidly since its emergence in the early
2000s. New applications, techniques and criticisms of techniques appear like clockwork with …

Inferring population decline and expansion from microsatellite data: a simulation-based evaluation of the Msvar method

C Girod, R Vitalis, R Leblois, H Fréville - Genetics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Reconstructing the demographic history of populations is a central issue in evolutionary
biology. Using likelihood-based methods coupled with Monte Carlo simulations, it is now …

Past environmental changes affected lemur population dynamics prior to human impact in Madagascar

H Teixeira, V Montade, J Salmona, J Metzger… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Quaternary climatic changes have been invoked as important drivers of species
diversification worldwide. However, the impact of such changes on vegetation and animal …

Mapping our knowledge on birds of prey population genetics

M Gousy-Leblanc, G Yannic, JF Therrien… - Conservation …, 2021 - Springer
The current and rapid anthropogenic environmental changes could disproportionately
impact ecosystems, particularly when they affect species with critical roles in ecosystem …

Genomic impact of whaling in North Atlantic fin whales

M Wolf, M De Jong, SD Halldórsson… - Molecular biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
It is generally recognized that large-scale whaling in the 19th and 20th century led to a
substantial reduction of the size of many cetacean populations, particularly those of the …

Impact of model assumptions on demographic inferences: the case study of two sympatric mouse lemurs in northwestern Madagascar

H Teixeira, J Salmona, A Arredondo, B Mourato… - BMC Ecology and …, 2021 - Springer
Background Quaternary climate fluctuations have been acknowledged as major drivers of
the geographical distribution of the extraordinary biodiversity observed in tropical biomes …

Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Genetic Diversity of the Critically Endangered Primate, the Pied Tamarin (Saguinus bicolor): Implications for Conservation

IP Farias, WG Santos, M Gordo, T Hrbek - Journal of Heredity, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We analyzed DNA at 9 microsatellite loci from hair samples of 73 pied tamarins (Saguinus
bicolor) located in 3 urban forest fragments and a biological reserve in the city of Manaus …

Demographic collapse threatens the long-term persistence of Andean condors in the northern Andes

J Padró, FH Vargas, SA Lambertucci, PL Perrig… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Determining the conservation status of long-lived and highly mobile species is particularly
challenging due to their long generational time and the spatio-temporal scale at which they …