Conservation Genetics (Operator Theory, Advances and Applications") <68>

This book aims at defining and reassessing the role of population genetics in conservation biology and seeks to identify the progress made in this field during the last decade. It deals with conservation genetics from several currently rersearched points of view, namely, ecological and demographic measures of rarity or population persistence, loss of genetic variation, inbreeding, reduced migration rates and increased selective pressures under stress and the role of social behaviour and metapopulation structure.