In response to ever-increasing anthropogenic changes to natural ecosystems, regional,
national and international organizations have established guidelines for monitoring …

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 …

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 …

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

An essential prerequisite of a sustainable fisheries management is the matching of
biologically relevant processes and management action. In fisheries management and …

The mode and extent of rapid evolution and genomic change in response to human
harvesting are key conservation issues. Although experiments and models have shown a …

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 …

How genomic selection enables species to adapt to divergent environments is a
fundamental question in ecology and evolution. We investigated the genomic signatures of …

Studies of adaptive evolution have experienced a recent revival in population genetics of
natural populations and there is currently much focus on identifying genomic signatures of …