Читать книгу Fundamentals of Conservation Biology - Malcolm L. Hunter Jr. - Страница 114

Species are the typical focus of conservation, but just conserving species will not adequately protect intraspecific diversity, which is the basis of evolutionary potential. How are species and their constituent populations organized across their range? How should they best be protected? Fisheries biologists frequently try to distinguish stocks of fish for improved management – that is, uncovering “units of conservation” – a good example of which is the work of Zhivotovsky et al. (2015) on how a massive salmonid fish known as the taimen is organized around the Russian Far East.