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Conservation Genetic Resources for Effective Species Survival (ConGRESS): Bridging the divide between conservation research and practice
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policy makers managers increasingly called upon assess state biodiversity make decisions regarding potential interventions genetic tools wellrecognised research community powerful approach evaluate species population status reveal ecological demographic processes inform nature conservation decisions wealth genetic data power genetic methods rapidly growing consideration genetic information concerns policy management limited currently low capacity decisionmakers access apply genetic resources describe freely available userfriendly online resource decisionmakers local national levels httpcongressgeneticseu increases access current knowledge facilitates implementation studies interpretation available data fosters collaboration researchers practitioners resource created partnership conservation practitioners across european union includes spectrum taxa ecosystems conservation issues goals 1 introduce rationale context 2 describe specific tools knowledge summaries publications database decision making tool project planning tool forum community directory challenges help solve 3 summarise lessons learned article provides outlook model similar efforts build policy management capacity