Our paper "Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene" is out in @ScienceMagazine!

We study how genetic diversity is lost by habitat loss to help define @UNBiodiversity #Sustainable targets

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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@CarnegiePlants
@CarnegieEcology
@Stanford This all started with a deep worry about our lack of knowledge of global losses of genetic diversity and the call for more conservation policies that account for genetics @LindaLaikre, @seanmhoban, and others

Since the @UN @UNBiodiversity was discussing biodiversity targets this week, we wanted to post our latest study in @biorxiv_ecology

“Quantifying the scale of genetic diversity extinction in the Anthropocene”

doi.org/10.1101/2021.1…

@CarnegiePlants @CarnegieEcology @Stanford
🧵 If you don’t know @UNBiodiversity, check this piece in @nytimes
nytimes.com/2021/10/14/cli…

tl;dr of our short @PNASNews synthesis on adaptive timings in A. thaliana. How do they know when to germinate or flower in seasonal climates? (Spoiler alert: more complicated than winter and spring cycles!)

dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1…

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👇 The classic observation that some ecotypes needed a cold treatment to flower when grown in cozy-warm laboratory conditions suggested two life modes: populations that time their germination to fall and flower in spring after the cold winter (winter cyclers/annuals),