Principles and Practice of Plant Conservation - Given, D.

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Sommaire:
1 Reasons for Conserving Plant Diversity.- Conservation and Development.- Developing a Rationale for Conservation.- 2 How Plants Become Threatened or Extinct.- The Process of Extinction.- Characteristics of Declining Populations.- The Influence of Humanity.- Future Losses and Gains.- 3 Documentation and Databases for Plant Conservation.- Types of Data.- Types of Databases.- Collecting and Describing Data.- Data Processing.- Access to Databases.- 4 Plant Population Management.- Biological and Ecological Considerations.- Maintaining Population Characteristics.- Viable Population Planning and Risk Analysis.- Maintaining Essential Habitat.- Field Study Techniques.- Population Management in the Real World.- 5 Plant Conservation in Protected Natural Areas.- Considerations in Designating Protected Areas.- Protected Area Categories.- Managing Protected Areas.- 6 Off-site Plant Conservation.- The Role of Botanic Gardens in Conservation.- Gene Banks and Germ Plasm Conservation.- Experimental Gardens.- Other Off-site Conservation Areas.- Research and Liaison Between Sites.- Constraints to Off-site Conservation.- 7 Plant Conservation in Modified Landscapes.- Types of Modified Landscapes.- Habitat Restoration.- Translocation and Reestablishment.- 8 Awareness and Education.- Environmental Awareness Programs.- Environmental Education Programs.- The Education Function of Protected Areas.- The Contribution of Professionals.- Environmental Education Resources.- The Media.- Social Ethics.- 9 Conservation Legislation, by Cyrille de Klemm.- The Basis for Legislation.- Species-centered Legislation.- Collection Controls.- Trade Controls.- Habitat Protection.- Dynamic Conservation.- Ecosystem-centered Legislation.- Future Directions.- 10 Economics and Plant Conservation.- ValuingResources.- The Costs of Development.- The Costs of Conservation.- International Trade and Foreign Aid.- Allocating Resources for Conservation.- Economic and Environmental Stability.- 11 Putting It Together: Integrated Conservation.- Conservation-A Crisis Discipline.- Cross-sectoral Conservation-Integrated Approaches.- International Organizations.- Multinational and Development Agencies.- Volunteers.- Research Priorities for Conservation.- The Funding Crisis.- The Information Crisis.- Focal Points.- The Last Frontier.- People and Plants.- Conversion Formulas.