Pleistocene environmental fluctuations had well-characterized impacts on the patterns of within-species divergences and diversity in temperate habitats. Here authors examined the impact the Pleistocene had on widely distributed forest vertebrates in a tropical system where the distribution of the habitat was affected by those fluctuations.

The global loss of biodiversity continues at an alarming rate. Genomic approaches have been suggested as a promising tool for conservation practice as scaling up to genome-wide data can improve traditional conservation genetic inferences and provide qualitatively novel insights. However, the generation of genomic data and subsequent analyses and interpretations remain challenging and largely confined to academic research in ecology and evolution.

Species–area relationships are the product of many ecological processes and their interactions. Explanations for the species–area relationship (SAR) have focused on separating putative niche-based mechanisms that correlate with area from sampling effects caused by patches with more individuals containing more species than patches with fewer individuals. The hypothesis that SARs in breeding waterfowl communities are caused by sampling effects was tested (i.e. random placement...

Morphological and physiological diversity observed in domestic species is strikingly greater than that seen in wild species. To explain this diversity, a hypothesis was proposed some decades ago that suggested that selective forces imposed on domestic species (plants and animals) would have led to higher recombination rate in the genome of domesticates, thus allowing for new combinations of alleles, and thus also of characters. However, this hypothesis had never been conclusively tested....

A workshop organised by BirdLife International will take place at EBD-CSIC premises on January 21st-22nd to propose a priority list of invasive species Among participants, the universities of Cambridge, Vienna and Berne, the Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig (UFZ, Germany), the Zoological Society of London and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Researchers, international (EPPO, IUCN) and national organizations (Belgian Biodiversity Platform) are found.