title: Amphibian molecular ecology and how it has informed conservation.
abstract: Molecular ecology has become one of the key tools in the modern conservationist's kit. Here we review three areas where molecular ecology has been applied to amphibian conservation: genes on landscapes, within-population processes, and genes that matter. We summarize relevant analytical methods, recent important studies from the amphibian literature, and conservation implications for each section. Finally, we include five in-depth examples of how molecular ecology has been successfully applied to specific amphibian systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, 610 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Evan
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1803-1126
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: McCartney-Melstad
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, 610 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: H Bradley
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Shaffer
mesh_terms: D000663:Amphibians / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D001001:Anura; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D008967:Molecular Biology; D014562:Caudata
keywords: amphibians; conservation genetics; landscape genetics; natural selection and contemporary evolution; population genetics-empirical; wildlife management