Young Researchers in Conservation Biology and Biodiversity
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Conservation Biology and Biodiversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 468
Special Issue Editor
Interests: animal population genomics; conservation genetics, phylogeography
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In this Special Issue, we aim to feature early-career researchers in the field of Conservation Biology and Biodiversity. The senior author(s) of each contribution should be (a) the first or last author as well as the corresponding author and (b) be within 10 years of completing their Ph.D. (or equivalent) or becoming an assistant professor/on tenure track. We invite submissions from diverse research fields, including topics on the biology of small declining populations, the demographic and genetic consequences of bottlenecks, the relationships between heterozygosity and fitness, the genetics of inbreeding and hybridization, the estimates of extinction risks, the use of population genetics and genomics to define species boundaries, and the discovery of evolutionary and conservation population units and prediction of their future evolvability. Articles submitted for this Special Issue should meet all standard requirements of individual Biology articles (regarding quality, novelty, and significance) and be relevant to a broad international and interdisciplinary readership.
Authors featured in this Special Issue will have the opportunity to be nominated for next year's Young Investigator Award.
Prof. Dr. Ettore Randi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- population genomics and diversity
- heterozygosity
- inbreeding
- hybridization
- adaptive introgression
- natural selection
- speciation
- bottleneck and population fragmentation
- genetic drift
- gene flow
- extinction risk
- evolvability
- paleogenomics
- phylogeography
- conservation units
- ecotypes
- phylogenetics and systematics
- eDNA
- non-invasive genetic sampling
- environmental monitoring
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