Wildlife Genetic Diversity
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Wildlife".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 7104
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal science; biostatistics; genetic diversity; landscape genetics; phylogenetics; population genetics
Interests: genetic differentiation of mammals; population genetics; influence of habitat fragmentation on small mammals; wildlife conservation; landscape ecology
Interests: problems with different parameters influencing pig health and production; production and quality of colostrum; passive immunity transfer
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are currently witnessing a human-driven biodiversity crisis that necessitates the protection of wildlife and the maintenance of species richness. The scale and high extinction rates of the current biodiversity crisis constitute a challenge for humans and a call for conservation action. To effectively protect biodiversity, it is necessary to understand and monitor both beneficial and destructive changes in order to help wildlife to recover and save many species from extinction. Therefore, monitoring genetic diversity is an important step in gaining information on the extinction risk of many populations and species to target conservation action and provide effective solutions. Habitats that accommodate ecological networks, rather than individual species, appear to be the best way to protect wildlife diversity.
The current Special Issue welcomes original manuscripts on (1) vertebrate genetic diversity, with particular emphasis on rare and declining species; (2) the effects of environmental degradation (e.g., habitat loss and fragmentation) on the genetic fitness of populations/species; and (3) conservation efforts to improve genetic diversity.
Dr. Heliodor Wierzbicki
Dr. Magdalena Moska
Prof. Dr. Anna Rząsa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- genetic diversity
- climate change
- habitat loss
- habitat fragmentation
- endangered species
- biodiversity
- conservation
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