Strategies for Conserving Clinal, Ecotypic, and Disjunct Population Diversiv in Widespread Species

Connie I. Millar; William J. Libby

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Strategies for Conserving Clinal, Ecotypic, and Disjunct Population Diversiv in Widespread Species

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Authors:

Connie I. Millar, William J. Libby

Year:

1991

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

In: Genetics and conservation of rare plants. 1991. Falk, Donald A; Holsinger, Kent E. Oxford University Press: p. 149-170

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Abstract

Why is a chapter on widespread species appearing in a volume on rare species? One answer to that is another question: Why focus on species in the first place? Granted, species do have a unique status. They are more or less closed units genetically, and species extinction signals the end of an evolutionary lineage that may have begun millions of years ago. By contrast. individuals and populations within species are lost and replaced all the time.

Citation

Millar, Constance I.; Libby, William J. 1991. Strategies for Conserving Clinal, Ecotypic, and Disjunct Population Diversiv in Widespread Species. In: Genetics and conservation of rare plants. 1991. Falk, Donald A; Holsinger, Kent E. Oxford University Press: p. 149-170