WPA Galliformes Genetics Group

If we were to assume that Lophura pheasants are largely ecotypical in origination, what level of evolutionary novelty is worthy of conservation efforts? Do we think of the entire group as a monophyletic ecological replacement series and treat each ecotone population as a conservation priority or should we only be concerned with those ecotypical forms we can recognize? In other words, are the ecotypes inhabiting secondary contact zone any more or less important  for the long-term  evolutionary potential of future generations of Lophura ?
It seems that  many of the same ecological collapses that have been theorized in recent papers on the phylogeography and genetic origins of Asian Elephant; Tigers  may have played some part in the diversification of any number of Asiatic genera.

How would researchers go about investigating what levels of adaptability including phenotypic variation are conservation priorities>?

Much of the recent literature regarding taxon like the imperialis morph suggest that hybridization may pose a risk to wild populations through over competition. Is there any way to test that notion?