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.
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.
Dr. Pedro M. Galetti Jr is Full Professor of Evolutionary and Conservation Genetics at Federal University of Sćo 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 Sćo 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.
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