Mongabay: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+), the UN program to conserve tropical forests by paying developing nations to keep them standing, should go hand-in-hand with increased genetic studies of imperiled tropical biodiversity, according to a new opinion article in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conversation Science. Most importantly, REDD+ could benefit from the study of phylogeography, a new field that looks at a species' genetic variations across a region, argues......
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REDD+ should pave way for more research into genetic studies of tropical species
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 10th, 2012
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