Conservation in Practice and Policy Neglect of Genetic Diversity in Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity

LINDA LAIKRE,∗ FRED W. ALLENDORF,† LAUREL C. ARONER,† C. SCOTT BAKER,‡ DAVID P. GREGOVICH,§ MICHAEL M. HANSEN,∗∗ JENNIFER A. JACKSON,‡ KATHERINE C. KENDALL,†† KEVIN McKELVEY,‡‡ MAILE C. NEEL,§§ ISABELLE OLIVIERI,∗∗∗ NILS RYMAN,∗ MICHAEL K. SCHWARTZ,‡‡ RUTH SHORT BULL,† JEFFREY B. STETZ,†† DAVID A. TALLMON,††† BARBARA L. TAYLOR,§ CHRISTINA D. VOJTA,‡‡‡ DONALD M. WALLER,§§§ AND ROBIN S. WAPLES∗∗∗∗ ∗Department of Zoology, Division of Population Genetics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden †Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, U.S.A. ‡Marine Mammal Institute and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Newport, OR 97365, U.S.A. §Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, 3333 N. Torrey Pines Court, La Jolla, CA 92038, U.S.A. ∗∗Department of Biological Sciences, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark ††Ecologist, 2730 Columbia Falls Stage Road, Columbia Falls, MT 59912, U.S.A. ‡‡USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 800 E. Beckwith Avenue, Missoula, MT 59801, U.S.A. §§Departments of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, and Entomology, 2116 Plant Sciences Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A. ∗∗∗University of Montpellier 2, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, Place eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France †††Biology & Marine Biology Program, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK 99801, U.S.A. ‡‡‡USDA Forest Service, 1400 Independence Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20250, U.S.A. §§§Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A. ∗∗∗∗National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 2725 Montlake Boulevard East, Seattle, WA 98112, U.S.A.