Conservation Genetics in the Neotropics

ISBN-13: 9783031348532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

This book explores how genetics and the new technologies in genomics have been used for conservation of plants and animals in the Neotropics. It shows the new perspective for conservation genetics beyond the use of theoretical and methods in genetics at species level and presents how genetics and genomics can be used for assessing communities. Conservation genetics and genomics are presented as a helpful field of study for resolving taxonomic uncertainties and hidden biodiversity, understanding populations and extinction risk, genetic management, wildlife forensic genetics, assessing biology and molecular ecology, assessing communities, conservation genomics and the use of conservation biology and genetics in science learning, highlighting case studies in the Neotropics. Applications of conservation genetics for management or policy, decision making, planning, and implementation of conservation practice in the Neotropics are addressed across chapters. This book will interest to researchers and students in conservation genetics and biology conservation interested in the Neotropics. Stakeholders and decision makers in conservation biology may also find this book useful.

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction

Chapter. 1. A fresh look at Conservation Genetics in the Neotropics

Part. II. Species and Conservation

Chapter. 2. DNA barcoding for assessing biodiversity

Chapter. 3. Genetic tools for the conservation of bats

Chapter. 4. Status quo and orchid conservation challenges in the neotropical region

Chapter. 5. Population Differentiation with Introgression

Part. III. Assessing and Managing Populations

Chapter. 6. Phylogeography for neotropical species conservation: Lineages through time and space

Chapter. 7. Landscape genetics in the Neotropics

Chapter. 8. Integrative cytogenetics, a conservation approach in Atlantic fish: Concepts, estimates, and uses

Chapter. 9. In situ, ex situ and on farm conservation of plant genetic resources in Neotropics

Chapter. 10. Genetic management applied to conservation of reduced and fragmented wild populations

Chapter. 11. Chromosome variability of manatees (Trichechus spp.) from Brazil: the state of the art, challenges and perspectives for management and conservation

Chapter. 12. Supplemental technologies for freshwater fish conservation

Part. IV. Wildlife Forensic Genetics, Ecotoxicology and Conservation

Chapter. 13. Giving names to the characters: identifying, tracing and estimating the multiple use of aquatic wildlife in Brazil

Chapter. 14. Wildlife forensic genetics: a tool for resolving wildlife crimes and support species conservation

Chapter. 15. Environmental ecogenotoxicity and conservation

Part. V. Assessing Molecular Ecology and Communities

Chapter. 16. Molecular ecology in neotropical mammals: key aspects for conservation

Chapter. 17. Molecular tools to analyze the effects of roads on wildlife in the Neotropics

Chapter. 18. Environmental and invertebrate-derived DNA: a powerful approach for surveying and monitoring biodiversity

Part. VI. Conservation Genomics

Chapter. 19. Conservation genomics of neotropical carnivores

Chapter. 20. Challenges with conservation genetics and genomics in neotropical forest

Chapter. 21. Integrating genomic and cytogenetic data to study the evolutionary history of arapaimas and arowanas in the Neotropics

Part. VII. Science Learning and Conservation

Chapter. 22. Environmental Education on Practices for Biodiversity Conservation

Chapter. 23. Phenotypic plasticity of plants in formal and non-formal education: genetics in everyday life

Index

O autorze

Dr. Pedro M. Galetti Jr is Full Professor of Evolutionary and Conservation Genetics at Federal University of São Carlos (Brazil). He leads a research group working on molecular ecology, population genetics, phylogeography, evolutionary and conservation genetics using molecular approaches with a focus on vertebrates. He is recognized among pioneering researchers on neotropical fish genetics and is now interested in the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on the genetic diversity of fish, birds and mammals. Pedro Galetti has published more than two hundred papers in recognized journals. He was visiting professor at East Tennessee State University and visiting scholar at Stanford University. He was provost of Research and Graduate Studies and vice-rector of the Federal University of São Carlos, and president of the Brazilian Society of Genetics. He is editor of Temas Atuais em Biologia, a Brazilian electronic journal for scientific dissemination in Biology, and is associate editor of GENETICA (Springer). He has mentored several PhD students and postdocs.