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Science 20 September 2002:
Vol. 297. no. 5589, pp. 2009 - 2010
DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5589.2009
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Perspectives

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ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: Quaternary Refugia and Persistence of Biodiversity

Pierre Taberlet and Rachid Cheddadi

In order to preserve biodiversity, we need to understand the mechanisms that sustain it. In their perspective, Taberlet and Cheddadi describe work (Tzedakis et al.) that illustrates the importance of southern refugia for the persistence of some temperate tree species during the last glacial-interglacial cycles. Interdisciplinary efforts to identify other putative refugia, could be important in long-term conservation planning.

P. Taberlet is in the Laboratoire de Biologie des Populations d'Altitude, CNRS UMR 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. R. Cheddadi is with the European Pollen Database, CNRS UMR 6116, Centre Universitaire d'Arles, F-13200 Arles, France. E-mail: pierre.taberlet{at}ujf-grenoble.fr

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