Conservation and the Genetics of Populations (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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...
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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: href="http://www.wiley.com/go/allendorf/populations">www.wiley.com/go/allendorf/populations.
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: href="http://www.wiley.com/go/allendorf/populations">www.wiley.com/go/allendorf/populations.
Autoren-Porträt von Fred W. Allendorf, Gordon H. Luikart, Sally N. Aitken
Fred W.Allendorf is a
Regents Professor at the University of Montana and a Professorial
Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington in New
Zealand. He has published over 200 articles on the population
genetics and conservation of fish, amphibians, mammals,
invertebrates, and plants. He is a past President of the
American Genetic Association, and has served as Director of the
Population Biology Program of the National Science
Foundation. He has taught conservation genetics at the
University of Montana, University of Oregon, University of
Minnesota, University of Western Australia, Victoria University of
Wellington, and the US National Conservation Training
Center.
Gordon Luikart is an Associate Professor at the
Flathead Lake Biological Station of the University of Montana and a
Visiting Scientist in the Center for Investigation of Biodiversity
and Genetic Resources at the University of Porto, Portugal.style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> He is also an award
winning (Bronze Medal) Research Scientist with the Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique lang="EN-GB">at the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France.
His research focuses on the conservation and genetics of wild and
domestic animals, and includes over 100 publications. He was
a Fulbright Scholar at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and he is a
member of the IUCN Specialist Group for Caprinae (mountain
ungulates) conservation.
Sally N.
Aitken is a
Professor in the Department of Forest Sciences and Director of the
Centre for Forest Conservation Genetics at the University of
British Columbia. She studies the population, conservation,
ecological genetics, and genomics of forest trees. Sstyle="font-family:" lang="EN-CA">he received her PhD from the
University of California, Berkeley, and she was a faculty member at
Oregon State University. She has received the style="font-family:" lang="EN-GB">Canadian Forestry Scientific
Achievement Award, a Killam Faculty Research
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Fellowship, and a
Killam Teaching Prize. She teaches forest biology, alpine ecology,
and conservation genetics, and she is involved in forest genetic
conservation initiatives in North America and
Europe.
Killam Teaching Prize. She teaches forest biology, alpine ecology,
and conservation genetics, and she is involved in forest genetic
conservation initiatives in North America and
Europe.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Fred W. Allendorf , Gordon H. Luikart , Sally N. Aitken
- 2012, 2. Auflage, 632 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1118408578
- ISBN-13: 9781118408575
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.10.2012
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