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Adaptive evolutionary conservation: towards a unified concept for defining conservation units.

Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2001

Fraser D J, Bernatchez L

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Recent years have seen a debate over various methods that could objectively prioritize conservation value below the species level. Most prominent among these has been the evolutionarily significant unit (ESU). We reviewed ESU concepts with the aim of proposing a more unified concept that would reconcile opposing views. Like species concepts, conflicting ESU concepts are all essentially aiming to define the same...

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