Loss of biodiversity is among the greatest problems facing the
world today. "Conservation and the Genetics of Populations" gives a
comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and
tools needed to understand how genetic information can be used to
conserve species threatened with extinction, and to manage species
of ecological or commercial importance. New molecular techniques,
statistical methods, and computer programs, genetic principles, and
methods are becoming increasingly useful in the conservation of
biological diversity. Using a balance of data and theory, coupled
with basic and applied research examples, this book examines
genetic and phenotypic variation in natural populations, the
principles and mechanisms of evolutionary change, the
interpretation of genetic data from natural populations, and how
these can be applied to conservation. The book includes examples
from plants, animals, and microbes in wild and captive populations.
This second edition contains new chapters on Climate Change and
Exploited Populations as well as new sections on genomics, genetic
monitoring, emerging diseases, metagenomics, and more. One-third of
the references in this edition were published after the first
edition.
Each of the 22 chapters and the statistical appendix have a
Guest Box written by an expert in that particular topic (including
James Crow, Louis Bernatchez, Loren Rieseberg, Rick Shine, and
Lisette Waits).
This book is essential for advanced undergraduate and graduate
students of conservation genetics, natural resource management, and
conservation biology, as well as professional conservation
biologists working for wildlife and habitat management
agencies.
Additional resources for this book can be found at:
www.wiley.com/go/allendorf/populations.
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