Noninvasive genetic sampling provides great potential for research and management
applications in wildlife biology. Researchers can obtain DNA from a variety of sources …

Noninvasive population genetics has found many applications in ecology and conservation
biology. However, the technical difficulties inherent to the analysis of low quantities of DNA …

Research in ecology and wildlife biology remains crucial for increasing our knowledge and
improving species management and conservation in the midst of the current biodiversity …

Accurate identification of sex in birds is important for the management and conservation of
avian wildlife in several ways, namely in the development of population, behavioral and …

Research on the genetics of natural populations was revolutionized in the 1990s by
methods for genotyping noninvasively collected samples. However, these methods have …

Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) technology has extraordinarily enhanced the scope of
research in the life sciences. To broaden the application of NGS to systems that were …

Feathers are increasingly collected as a nondestructive source of DNA for avian genetic
research. Although feather samples are not optimal in some important ways than more …

The main goal of non‐invasive genetic capture‐mark‐recapture (CMR) analysis is to gain an
unbiased and reliable population size estimate of species that cannot be sampled directly …

This article responds to the recent prominence of ornithological literature advocating the
plucking or clipping of feathers to obtain DNA in avian studies. We argue that the practise of …

Noninvasive sampling is very attractive to field biologists and has tremendous potential for
studying secretive species and being a cost-effective method of increasing sample sizes in …