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SUMMARY:Conserving genetic diversity of at-risk species across the data-av
 ailability spectrum
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Brenna Forester\, Branch of Species Status Assessment (SSA)
  Science Support\, Division of Endangered Species\, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
  Service\, Fort-Collins & Department of Biology\, Colorado State Universit
 y\, CO\, USA. The role of the Species Status Assessment Science Support is
  to provide scientific expertise to teams of biologists who are assessing 
 species for listing under the Endangered Species Act as well as planning r
 ecovery for listed species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a huge 
 workload of species to assess and develop recovery plans for. Most species
  are data limited\, so making decisions with low information availability 
 is common\, including genetic data. Goals of Dr Forester's recent work are
  to improve inferences of intraspecific variation in these cases to improv
 e and streamline decision-making\, both for listing and recovery.\nGenetic
  data have been used for decades in conservation decision-making\, includi
 ng for the identification and recovery of species listed under the U.S. En
 dangered Species Act. Technological advances have made much larger genomic
  datasets available for at-risk species\, improving the precision and reso
 lution of metrics such as genetic diversity\, while bringing previously in
 accessible parameters like adaptive differentiation and individual inbreed
 ing within reach. The advantages of these data are clear for the targeted 
 species\, yet the vast majority of at-risk species will never benefit from
  genetic studies. In this talk\, I will discuss how genetic and genomic da
 ta can be leveraged across the data-availability spectrum to inform at-ris
 k species conservation: from direct molecular studies that inform conserva
 tion questions such as delineating management units and evaluating evoluti
 onary potential\, to the use of proxies for genetic diversity and genetic 
 erosion within unsampled species. The magnitude of the biodiversity crisis
  requires the application of rapid\, large-scale assessments of intraspeci
 fic diversity to stem diversity losses. Genetic and genomic studies combin
 ed with population genetic theory and proxies can be leveraged to expand t
 he reach of these data beyond sampled species to prioritize conservation a
 nd avert these ongoing losses.
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