Conservation biology: The need for multidisciplinary approaches

Abstract

This volume contains 10 papers which include: the need for multidisciplinary approaches in conservation biology; diminishing return of investment in genetic diversity; the effect of developmental temperature fluctuation on wing traits and stressed locomotor performance in Drosophila melanogaster, and its dependence on heterozygosity; Balkan glacial history and modern Drosophila subobscura population genetics; landscape genetics of the Italian roe deer (Capreolus c. italicus) populations, conservation of threatened local gene pools; genetic consequences of population decline in the Danish population of the little owl (Athene noctua); inconsistent effects of developmental temperature acclimation on low-temperature performance and metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster; the consequences of the unlikely but critical assumption of stepwise mutation in the population genetic software, MSVAR; implementation of mixture analysis on quantitative traits in studies of neutral versus selective divergence; and patterns of asymmetry in wing traits of 3 island and one continental population of Merodon albifrons (Diptera, Syrphidae) from Greece.