Conservation and the Genetics of Populations

Abstract

I am sure many readers have experienced the excruciating situation of being involved in a conservation project that makes no effort to include a genetic component in the methodology. This is often due to a lack of understanding by managers compounded by an inability of biologists to remedy this situation by demonstrating the importance of genetics to the desired conservation outcome. The authors of Conservation and the Genetics of Populations have aimed their text at ?broadly trained biologists? to enable an understanding and application of genetic principles to conservation problems. If successful this would go a long way to alleviating this problem.