Achieving target 8 of the global strategy for plant conservation: Lessons learned from the North American collections assessment

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 161-166

  Hird, Abby ^a   Kramer, Andrea T ^b  

^a RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN   (United States)

^b and Botanical Gardens   (United States)

Author keywords

Botanic garden; exsitu plant conservation; Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC); living plant collection; seed bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890822036     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3417/2011114     Document Type: Article

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