In addition to providing animals with a source of directional or 'compass' information, Earth's
magnetic field also provides a potential source of positional or 'map'information that animals …

Diverse marine animals migrate across vast expanses of seemingly featureless ocean
before returning as adults to reproduce in the area where they originated. How animals …

Natal homing is a pattern of behavior in which animals migrate away from their geographic
area of origin and then return to reproduce in the same location where they began life [1–3] …

Human exploitation of marine ecosystems is more recent in oceanic than near shore
regions, yet our understanding of human impacts on oceanic food webs is comparatively …

Effective conservation requires maintenance of the processes underlying species
divergence, as well as understanding species' responses to episodic disturbances and long …

Defining subpopulations using genetics has traditionally used data from microsatellite
markers to investigate population structure; however, single‐nucleotide polymorphisms …

Abstract In the Hawaiian Islands, human colonization, which began approximately 1,200 to
800 years ago, marks the beginning of a period in which nearly 75% of the endemic …

Dispersal is critically linked to the demographic and evolutionary trajectories of populations,
but in most seabird species it may be difficult to estimate. Using molecular tools, we explored …

Human-induced ecological change in the open oceans appears to be accelerating.
Fisheries, climate change and elevated nutrient inputs are variously blamed, at least in part …

The relative importance of genetic drift and local adaptation in facilitating speciation remains
unclear. This is particularly true for seabirds, which can disperse over large geographic …