Plant Conservation: A Natural History Approach - Softcover

 
9780226455136: Plant Conservation: A Natural History Approach
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226455130 ISBN 13: 9780226455136
Verlag: University of Chicago Pr., 2005

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Natural history has always been the foundation of conservation biology. For centuries, botanists collected specimens in the field to understand plant diversity; now that many habitats are threatened, botanists have turned their focus to conservation, and, increasingly, they look to the collections of museums, herbaria, and botanical gardens for insight on developing informed management programs. Plant Conservation explores the value of these collections in light of contemporary biodiversity studies.

Plant Conservation opens with a broad view of plant biodiversity and then considers evolutionary and taxonomic threats and consequences of habitat alteration; specific threats to plant diversity, such as invasive species and global climate change; consequences of plant population decline at the ecological, evolutionary, and taxonomic levels; and, finally, management strategies that protect plant biodiversity from further decline. With a unique perspective on biodiversity and scientific collections, Plant Conservation ultimately emphasizes the role museums and botanical gardens will play in future conservation.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Gary A. Krupnick is director of the plant conservation unit in the Department of Botany at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. W. John Kress is a research scientist and chairman of the Department of Botany at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.


Gary A. Krupnick is director of the plant conservation unit and W. John Kress is a research scientist and chairman of the Department of Botany at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Pr.
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226455130
ISBN 13 
9780226455136
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
346
Herausgeber
Krupnick Gary A., Kress W. John
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