Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
The Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, USA.
Trends Genet. 2023 Nov;39(11):816-829. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2023.08.002. Epub 2023 Aug 28.
Genetic biodiversity is rapidly gaining attention in global conservation policy. However, for almost all species, conservation relevant, population-level genetic data are lacking, limiting the extent to which genetic diversity can be used for conservation policy and decision-making. Macrogenetics is an emerging discipline that explores the patterns and processes underlying population genetic composition at broad taxonomic and spatial scales by aggregating and reanalyzing thousands of published genetic datasets. Here we argue that focusing macrogenetic tools on conservation needs, or conservation macrogenetics, will enhance decision-making for conservation practice and fill key data gaps for global policy. Conservation macrogenetics provides an empirical basis for better understanding the complexity and resilience of biological systems and, thus, how anthropogenic drivers and policy decisions affect biodiversity.
遗传生物多样性在全球保护政策中正迅速受到关注。然而，对于几乎所有物种而言，缺乏与保护相关的群体遗传数据，这限制了遗传多样性在保护政策和决策中的应用程度。宏遗传学是一门新兴学科，通过聚合和重新分析数千个已发表的遗传数据集，探索广泛的分类和空间尺度下种群遗传组成的模式和过程。在这里，我们认为，将宏遗传学工具集中于保护需求，即保护宏遗传学，将增强保护实践的决策能力，并填补全球政策的关键数据空白。保护宏遗传学为更好地理解生物系统的复杂性和弹性提供了经验基础，从而了解人为驱动因素和政策决策如何影响生物多样性。
