Measuring inbreeding via runs of homozygosity (ROH) captures realized autozygosity and can infer inbreeding timing through ROH length. A growing body of literature links the proportion of the genome ....

Heredity - The effective size of the Scandinavian wolf population is too small for both short- and long-term conservation

The Smithsonian Institution is the worlds largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. This position is located in Smithsonians National Zoo and Conservation ...

Researchers often use multiple genetic methods to estimate contemporary effective population size (Ne), but few formally combine estimates despite potential benefits for increasing precision. Maximis....

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Hybridization has long been a central topic in evolution and conservation. Recent developments in genomics have increased the ability to detect hybridization, defined here as breeding between species....

Die Forschungseinheit Biodiversität und Naturschutzbiologie untersucht die Vielfalt des Lebens, von der genetischen Diversität bis zur Arten- und Lebensraumvielfalt sowie ihre Interaktionen. Das für m...

Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

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Island populations are at heightened risk of inbreeding due to reduced mating opportunities with unrelated conspecifics. Extensive inbreeding can result in inbreeding depression (reduced fitness of i...

Conservation science and policy are geared primarily toward the preservation of species and habitats, with priority often given to the rarest, most...

In the age of gene editing, what does it mean to protect a species?

Researchers left at US climate agency say drastic cuts could leave air ‘not breathable’ and water ‘not drinkable’

Besides burning thousands of homes and displacing residents, the January fires, like earlier ones, upended the natural environment.

Connecting people around the world by synthesizing and sharing information about amphibians to enable research, education, and conservation

January 2025, Issue 1

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About four million common murres were killed by a domino effect of ecosystem changes, and the population is showing no signs of recovery, according to new research.

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Today, the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention voted in favour of the EU proposal to adapt the protection status of the wolf from ‘strictly protected' to ‘protected'.

The pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has devastated amphibian biodiversity, and methods to reverse these impacts are lacking. This study shows that frogs collected from recovering populati...