Plants and Protected Areas Pb - Softcover

Plants and Protected Areas: A Guide to In-Situ Management by John Tuxill and Gary Paul Nabhan

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Over the past three decades, scientists, natural resource managers and environ- mental policy-makers have recognized that the conservation of biological diver- sity depends upon protecting and managing intact natural habitats. Such recognition has given greater importance and urgency to the international move- ment to establish and maintain biosphere reserves, national parks, forest reserves, wildlife sanctuaries and other protected areas. Lacking such refuges, biological diversity will continue to vanish from our planet in a steady stream of extinctions, a trickle in some places, a torrent in others. Yet for one prominent component of biological diversity ? the genetic vari- ability contained within culturally valuable plant resources ? conservation efforts have focused primarily on safeguarding these resources away from the habitats and cultural contexts in which they evolved. The off-site protection of plants in botanical gardens, seedbanks and other centralized institutions has met with many successes an. Artikel-Nr. Batch-FM190-VG-4545

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