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Plant Conservation Science and Practice: The Role of Botanic Gardens
Stephen Blackmore
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Description for Plant Conservation Science and Practice: The Role of Botanic Gardens
paperback. This book focuses on global efforts to protect plant diversity and the role that botanic gardens play in conserving plant species. Editor(s): Blackmore, Stephen; Oldfield, Sara. Series: Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation. Num Pages: 260 pages, 4 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 35 tables. BIC Classification: PSAF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781316602461
SKU
V9781316602461
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Ref
99-20
About Stephen Blackmore
Stephen Blackmore is Queen's Botanist and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (RBGE), and Chairman of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and the UK Government's Darwin Initiative. He has formerly been Regius Keeper of RBGE (1999 to 2013) and Keeper of Botany at the Natural History Museum (1990 to 1999). Sara Oldfield, awarded an OBE in 2016 for ... Read more
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