Acknowledging more biodiversity without more species

C Dufresnes, N Poyarkov… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Delimiting and naming biodiversity is a vital step toward wildlife conservation and research.
However, species delimitation must be consistent across biota so that the limited resources …

dartR v2: An accessible genetic analysis platform for conservation, ecology and agriculture

JL Mijangos, B Gruber, O Berry… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Innumerable approaches to analyse genetic data are now available to guide conservation,
ecological and agricultural projects. However, streamlined and accessible tools are needed …

The importance of contact zones for distinguishing interspecific from intraspecific geographic variation

EA Chambers, TL Marshall, DM Hillis - Systematic Biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
With limited sampling, geographic variation within a single species can be difficult to
distinguish from interspecific variation, confounding our ability to draw accurate species …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomic insights into the diversity and evolution of Palearctic vipers

C Dufresnes, S Ghielmi, B Halpern… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite decades of molecular research, phylogenetic relationships in Palearctic vipers
(genus Vipera) still essentially rely on a few loci, such as mitochondrial barcoding genes …

Troubled waters in the land down under: Pervasive threats and high extinction risks demand urgent conservation actions to protect Australia's native freshwater fishes

M Lintermans, M Lutz, NS Whiterod, B Gruber… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
We conducted the first comprehensive global assessment of the extinction risk of Australia's
native freshwater fishes. Using International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) …

Multilocus phylogeography, population genetics and niche evolution of Australian brown and black-tailed treecreepers (Aves: Climacteris)

SV Edwards, JFR Tonini, N Mcinerney… - Biological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The Carpentarian barrier across north-eastern Australia is a major biogeographic barrier
and a generator of biodiversity within the Australian Monsoonal Tropics. Here we present a …

Lineage diversity within a widespread endemic Australian skink to better inform conservation in response to regional‐scale disturbance

DSB Dissanayake, CE Holleley, J Sumner… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Much attention is paid in conservation planning to the concept of a species, to ensure
comparability across studies and regions when classifying taxa against criteria of …

Multi-gene insights into the taxonomy and conservation of Tasmania's galaxiid fishes

M Adams, MP Hammer, PJ Unmack… - Marine and …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Context. Galaxiids are a widespread, Southern Hemisphere radiation of mostly obligate
freshwater fishes. Tasmania houses a diversity of endemic species of Galaxias and …

Long-term climatic stability drives accumulation and maintenance of divergent freshwater fish lineages in a temperate biodiversity hotspot

SJ Buckley, CJ Brauer, PJ Unmack, MP Hammer… - Heredity, 2024 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is forecast to drive regional climate disruption and instability
across the globe. These impacts are likely to be exacerbated within biodiversity hotspots …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary relationships and fine-scale geographic structuring in the temperate percichthyid genus Gadopsis (blackfishes) to support fisheries and …

MA Campbell, MP Hammer, M Adams… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Gadopsis (Percichthyidae) is a freshwater genus distributed in south-eastern Australia,
including Tasmania, and comprises two recognized species. Previous molecular …