To conserve biodiversity, create spaces where natural selection is allowed free rein
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Bruno Fady
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French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, Avignon, France.
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Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat
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European Forest Institute, Barcelona, Spain.
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Genetic diversity is essential to biodiversity. When environmental conditions change, as with global warming, genetic modifications under natural selection help to prevent populations and species, especially of sessile organisms such as plants, from extirpation. Governments and conservation authorities worldwide must do more to set aside areas where natural selection can occur without human intervention.
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Nature 633 , 36 (2024)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02854-z
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