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Resolve Gene Flow vs. Local Adaptation

Migration can help or hinder local adaptation, yet we cannot predict outcomes or optimize conservation strategies involving gene flow. This challenge involves understanding how migration affects the evolution of local adaptations. Barriers include migration-selection balance, adaptive landscape complexity, demographic-genetic interactions, and conservation application development. Without understanding gene flow effects, conservation strategies will be suboptimal, local adaptations will be lost, and population management will be ineffective. Success could optimize conservation strategies, preserve local adaptations, improve population management, and understand adaptation-migration interactions while advancing conservation genetics and population biology.

Science, Biology, Evolution