Advancing Species Conservation and Management Through Omics Tools

The conservation of biological resources has become a priority worldwide, exacerbated by the negative effects of a growing human population and related impacts on the structure, function and com-position of ecosystems. A plethora of species and populations across terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments are experiencing reductions in population sizes, some of which are more susceptible to demographic and genetic stochasticity than others (Exposito-Alonso et al. 2022). The era of omics has inspired thought-provoking possibilities in the field of conservation biology. Access to and application of large-scale omics datasets (e.g., genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, metagenomics) can shed novel insights on and resolve aspects of wildlife species biology and demography relevant to conservation assessments, management actions and monitoring (Allendorf et al. 2010; Schweizer et al. 2021; Zamudio 2023).