What is the Conservation Value of a Plant in a Botanic Garden? Using Indicators to Improve Management of Ex Situ Collections

Botanical Review

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 559-577

  Cibrian Jaramillo, Angelica ^a,b,c   Hird, Abby ^d,e   Oleas, Nora ^f,g   Ma, Helen ^b   Meerow, Alan W ^h   Francisco Ortega, Javier ^f,i   Griffith, M Patrick ^c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

^b NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^c MONTGOMERY BOTANICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d and Botanical Gardens   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA INDOAMÉRICA   (Ecuador)

^h U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

ⁱ Center for Tropical Plant Conservation   (United States)

Author keywords

Botanic gardens; C value; Chamaedorea ernesti augustii; Conservation genetics; Ex situ conservation, living collections; Leucothrinax morrisii

Indexed keywords

CHAMAEDOREA ERNESTI-AUGUSTII;

EID: 84889577025     PISSN: 00068101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12229-013-9120-0     Document Type: Article

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