Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene
M. Exposito-Alonso, T. A. Booker, L. Czech, T. Fukami, L. Gillespie, S. Hateley, C. C. Kyriazis, P. Lang, L. Leventhal, D. Nogues-Bravo, V. Pagowski, M. Ruffley, J. P. Spence, S. Toro Arana, C. Weiss, E. Zess
The paper introduces a mathematical framework to estimate genetic diversity loss due to habitat reduction and shows that over 10% of genetic diversity may already be lost globally.
bioRxiv · Oct 13, 2021Ecology