Feature Papers in 'Conservation Biology and Biodiversity' (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Conservation Biology and Biodiversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 July 2026 | Viewed by 13
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Interests: animal population genomics; conservation genetics, phylogeography
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Dear Colleagues,
This collection is the second edition of “Feature Papers in 'Conservation Biology and Biodiversity'”. The anthropogenic destruction of biodiversity has been ongoing for centuries or even millennia in many areas of the Old World, but it has never been more intense than it was in the past century. The development of increasingly energy-intensive human populations, the expansion of cultivated plants and domestic animals, the diffusion of alien and invasive species, and the impacts of technologies are accelerating the transformative processes of natural ecosystems at an unprecedented and uncontrollable rate. It is very important to make the theoretical and practical tools of conservation sciences available for the protection of the biosphere so that the biological evolution of populations can continue, generating new adaptations and contrasting extinctions.
Research on conservation biology is at the height of its activity, boosted by unprecedented possibilities of collecting and modelling big data in the ecology of ecosystems and populations, population genomics, and microevolution as well as co-adaptation processes between components of the biosphere and the technosphere. We can now manage international institutions and regulatory instruments, as well as potential financial resources, though they are often inadequate for the implementation of conservation projects in the "Real World" of biodiversity. Therefore, we invite anyone interested to contribute their papers to the realization of this Special Issue on 'Conservation Biology and Biodiversity'.
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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