Hybridization may facilitate in situ survival of endemic species through periods of climate change

By M. Becker, Nicole Gruenheit, M. Steel, Claudia Voelckel, Oliver Deusch, P. Heenan, P. McLenachan, Olga Kardailsky, Jessica W. Leigh, Peter J. Lockhart. 2013

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Hybridization as a conservation management tool (2019, background): “Hybridization may lead to new adaptive traits, allowing species to invade new niches and expand their distribution ranges (Becker et al., 2013; Carlson et al., 2014; Hamilton & Miller 2016; Hamilton et al., 2017; Hoffmann & Sgrò 2011; Meier et al., 2017; van Oppen et al., 2015).”
The silent extinction: climate change and the potential hybridization-mediated extinction of endemic high-mountain plants (2015, background): “2009) and facilitate the survival of endemic species under current climate change (Becker et al. 2013).”
Redefining the Role of Admixture and Genomics in Species Conservation (2018, background): “…al. 2001); under natural conditions, combining genomes via hybridization can rapidly contribute to the generation of novel phenotypic variation to facilitate persistence under new selection pressures, such as rapidly changing climates (Stebbins 1959; Mallet 1995; Becker et al. 2013; Arnold 2016).”