Genetic diversity is the foundation for natural selection and adaptation to environmental change and captures contemporary and past population dynamics. Its understanding is thus central both from an academic and a management perspective. However, contemporary understanding of genetic diversity is still scattered, and largely based on a small set of genetic markers. Recent advances in the analysis of whole-genome sequencing data provide unprecedented opportunities to characterize intraspecific genetic diversity, population structure and adaptive diversity in much greater detail. They also enable the reconstruction of recent demographic history, including patterns of inbreeding and changes in effective population size (Ne), thereby allowing the identification of populations that are particularly vulnerable. 

OneBioNet-G: Genetic diversity of key species of invertebrates in small water bodies in Switzerland is a cross-measure project funded by the 2nd Swiss Biodiversity ...