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Ecology Letters, (2008) 11: 609–623 doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01179.x R E V I E W A N D S Y N T H E S I S Ecological consequences of genetic diversity Abstract 1 A. Randall Hughes, * Brian D. Understanding the ecological consequences of biodiversity is a fundamental challenge. Inouye,2 Marc T. J. Johnson,3 Research on a key component of biodiversity, genetic diversity, has traditionally focused Nora Underwood2 and Mark on its importance in evolutionary processes, but classical studies in evolutionary biology, Vellend4 agronomy and conservation biology indicate that genetic diversity might also have 1Evolution and Ecology⁄ Bodega important ecological effects. Our review of the literature reveals significant effects of Marine Laboratory, University of genetic diversity on ecological processes such as primary productivity, population California, Davis, One Shields recovery from disturbance, interspecific competition, community structure, and fluxes of Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA 2 energy and nutrients. Thus, genetic diversity can have important ecological consequences Department of Biological Science, Florida State at the population, community and ecosystem levels, and in some cases the effects are University, Tallahassee, FL comparable in magnitude to the effects of species diversity. However, it is not clear how 32306, USA widely these results apply in nature, as studies to date have been biased towards 3Department of Biology, Duke manipulations of plant clo