Most species are not driven to extinction before genetic factors impact them.

By D. Spielman, Barry W. Brook, R. Frankham. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004

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2. D. H. Reed
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4. R. Deyoung
5. Roosa Leimu
6. Andrew Lowe
7. H. Wagner
8. Barry W. Brook

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• Determinants of genetic diversity (2016, background): “Spielman et al.(43), for instance, found that endangered”
• Genetics in conservation management: Revised recommendations for the 50/500 rules, Red List criteria and population viability analyses (2014, background): “Third, most species are not driven to extinction before genetic factors can influence them (Spielman et al., 2004).”
• Assessing the benefits and risks of translocations in changing environments: a genetic perspective (2011, background): “These responses depend on the presence of genetic variation in populations; in the absence of genetic variation, there is now strong evidence for an increased risk of extinction in wild populations (Spielman et al. 2004).”
• Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity (2014, background): “A coarse way of accommodating this could be to exclude species that are threatened with extinction (perhaps using the IUCN Red List): a meta-analysis showed that heterozygosity was on average 35% lower in a set of 170 threatened species than in close nonthreatened relatives (Spielman et al., 2004).”
• Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved (2020, background): “Low genetic diversity will increase extinction risk (Spielman et al. 2004).”
• Multiple introductions and invasion pathways for the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Eurasia (2011, background): “If the founding population remains small over several generations, genetic diversity may be further eroded by genetic drift (Hauser et al. 2002; Spielman et al. 2004; Frankham 2005).”
• Conservation genetics in a globally changing environment: present problems, paradoxes and future challenges (2007, background): “…range can produce fragmentations of the populations increasing the eVects of random genetic processes which can lead to a reduction of the eVective population size (Ne), of the genetic variability and of the evolutionary potential (Bijlsma et al. 2000; Hedrick 2000; Spielman et al. 2004a, b).”
• THE MOLECULAR TOOLBOX: GENETIC TECHNIQUES IN WILDLIFE ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (2005, background): “However, genetic variation is considered an important factor in the long-term persistence of populations, especially in the ability of the population to respond to environmental change (Lande 1988, Lacy 1997, Spielman et al. 2004).”
• Genetics and extinction (2005, background): “In a comprehensive meta-analysis involving 170 paired comparisons, we found that the majority of threatened taxa (77%) exhibited reduced genetic diversity (Spielman et al., 2004), leading us to reject the Lande scenario for most taxa.”
• The rough edges of the conservation genetics paradigm for plants (2006, background): “It has been contended that populations go extinct owing to demographic and environmental stochasticity before genetic stochasticity becomes important (Lande 1988; Schemske et al. 1994; Holsinger et al. 1999; but see Frankham & Ralls 1998; Spielman et al. 2004).”
• Congenital bone deformities and the inbred wolves (Canis lupus) of Isle Royale (2009, background): “Nevertheless, many conservation professionals and policy makers downplay the threats posed by genetic deterioration for many populations of conservation concern (see Spielman et al., 2004; Jamieson, 2007).”
• Effects of habitat fragmentation by damming on salmonid fishes: lessons from white-spotted charr in Japan (2009, background): “Although previous studies have argued that genetic deterioration has minimal effects on population persistence, as it acts more slowly than other factors (Lande 1988; Caro and Laurenson 1994), more recent studies have indicated that genetic factors can contribute to extinction in the wild (Frankham ”
• A conceptual framework for the spatial analysis of landscape genetic data (2013, background): “reduction of genetic diversity through drift, which may reduce the potential for evolutionary adaptation (Frankham 2005; Spielman et al. 2004).”
• Conservation implications of species–genetic diversity correlations (2014, background): “…and Collins, 2008; Hoffmann and Sgrò, 2011), and (2) neutral genetic variation of natural populations reflects inbreeding and genetic drift, which reduce the viability of populations (Reed and Frankham, 2003; Puurtinen et al., 2004; Spielman et al., 2004; Frankham, 2005a; O’Grady et al., 2006).”