In five to ten years we will need to change crops, change genetics -Jason Clay @IUCN #IUCNCongress #IUCN2016
We need practical, quantitative & specific plans of action for land use, based in knowledge #IUCNCongress -J Sachs #IUCN2016
We are bemoaning a disaster but lack road maps, metrics, guidelines, quantification.. esp for ag-biodiversity interface -J Sachs #IUCN2016
Pat Griffith explains why population, accession & year influence genetic variation in ex situ conservation seed collection #congen #iucn2016
Maggie Hunter mentions portable, field genotyping machines that fit in your hand, and eDNA collecting robots #congen #iucn2016
Maggie Hunter explains collection of eDNA from uncommon species in difficult conditions #congen #iucn2016
Warren Johnson tells us that #genomics will give us more info.. but will make policy more difficult b/c story is more complex! #iucn2016
People often assume plants are happiest (most fit) where they naturally occur- need to test this assumption! @MopaneSmith #congen #iucn2016
"The bottom line is nature matters" b/c most business relies on resilient, strong nature www.huffingtonpost.com/natural-capital-coalitio... … #IUCNCongress #iucn2016
Robb Fleischer @ #IUCN2016 used genomics to identify immune gene response of frogs to chytrid fungus
Ruth Gates @ #IUCN2016 need to assist #evolution, utilize species' symbionts, selectively breed, and tinker with our reefs to save them
Ruth Gates @IUCN #IUCN2016: "environmental change already outpacing ability of reefs to cope OR adapt." We must help them adapt via genetics
At @IUCN genomics biodiversity session, Warren Johnson- we need to study more genetics of species in human dominated environments #IUCN2016
Anyone else going to #IUCNCongress #IUCN2016 #worldconservationcongress @IUCN?