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Plant Conservation Science and Practice: The Role of Botanic Gardens

By Sara Oldfield , Stephen Blackmore

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781107148147, 9781316556726, 9781316602461
DOI
10.1017/9781316556726
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (15049368 bytes)
Series
Plant Sciences, Life Sciences, Ecology and Conservation
Edition
1
Pages
253\270
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-01-30 02:46:08

Description

Only a green world, rich in plants, can sustain us and the millions of other species with which we share this planet. But, in an era of global change, nature is on the retreat. Like the communities they form, many plant species are becoming rarer, threatened even to the point of extinction. The worldwide community of almost three thousand botanic gardens are holders of the most diverse living collections of plants and have the unique potential to conserve plant diversity. Conservation biology is a fast moving and often controversial field, and, as the contributions within these pages from experts in the field demonstrate, plant conservation is multifaceted, mirroring the complexity of the biodiversity it aims to protect, and striving not just to protect threatened plants but to preserve ecosystem services and secure the integrity of the biosphere.

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