Commercial trade of federally listed threatened and endangered plants in the United States

Conservation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 300-316

  Shirey, Patrick D ^a   Kunycky, Brianna N ^a   Chaloner, Dominic T ^a   Brueseke, Michael A ^a   Lamberti, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted colonization; Environmental law and policy; Ex situ conservation; Listed species; Rare plant conservation; Reintroduction; Translocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885465820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12031     Document Type: Review

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