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Is genetics a requirement for restoration?
Image from Luc Viatour (www.Lucnix.be) The fields of conservation and genetics have relied heavily on one another for quite a while now (they even made an aptly named journal together!). Using genetic...
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Isolation by environment explains why the grass isn’t always greener
Image via West Midlands Police Ever since Sewall Wright introduced isolation by distance in 1943, the interplay between genetic differentiation and geographic distance has been a foundational,...
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A current review of modern and ancient eDNA
There is something romantic about environmental DNA. The ability to discover the presence of almost any species just by detecting the microscopic bread crumbs they leave behind? That is really just a...
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The conservation genomics gap
Is genomic data a boon or a hurdle for conservation? Aaron Shafer and Jochen Wolf take a strong stance on the issue in a newly-published review in Trends in Ecology and Evolution: genomic data could...
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Reviewing the reviews: Twelve years of Landscape Genetics
Image source Landscape genetics has grown feverishly since its first formal definition in 2003 (Manel et al). The beauty of combining genetic, environmental, and spatial variation to answer biological...
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Dispersal by land or by sea
Here, we compare and contrast the traits and selective forces influencing the evolution of dispersal in marine and terrestrial systems. From this comparison, a unifying question emerges: when is...
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The biggest problem in landscape genetics and how to fix it
Landscape genetics is a field that has expanded rapidly in recent years, but that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t gone without criticism. Perhaps the largest problem with landscape genetics (LG) studies...
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Making ecology “count”: a review of the why and how of molecular ecology
It’s likely that everyone has been asked by either a friend or family member “What do you do?” Which, depending on what level of detail you shoot for, might be relatively straight forward. The...
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