John Black

Dec 5, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | John Black |Thomas Schmidt |Andrew Weeks

1 Introduction In the face of anthropogenic habitat fragmentation, translocations are becoming an increasingly common tool to combat the resulting losses of genetic diversity (Resende et al. 2020). While the effects of fragmentation on biodiversity are complex, a common outcome of population isolation resulting from fragmentation is lower effective and census population size in isolated sub-regions (Fahrig 2017; Fletcher et al. 2018; Haddad et al. 2015; Püttker et al.

Nov 28, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | John Black |Dean Heinze |Robbie Gaffney |Ary Hoffmann

1 INTRODUCTION Small, isolated populations are at an increased risk of inbreeding and can experience strong genetic drift (Charlesworth & Willis, 2009; Lynch et al., 2016; Wright, 1931, 1932). Both processes cause small populations to be more homozygous over time, either by fixing alleles and thus removing heterozygosity from the population (Lynch et al., 2016) or by increasing the likelihood that genomic regions inherited from each parent will be identical (Charlesworth & Willis, 2009).