Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The potential effects of climate change are just as bad as human trampling for biological soil crust communities, two CU-Boulder alumni have found.
The go-to-strategy for rescuing threatened species has long been to set aside tracts of healthy land to spread out in, and migration corridors that allow them to mix with other populations, gaining resilience via a broadened gene pool. Because habitat preservation isn’t always viable, introducing genetic diversity might keep threatened species viable, scientists find.