Ex Situ Plant Conservation and Beyond

KAYRI HAVENS; PATI VITT; MIKE MAUNDER; EDWARD O. GUERRANT; KINGSLEY DIXON

doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[525:ESPCAB]2.0.CO;2

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KAYRI HAVENS,^* PATI VITT,^** MIKE MAUNDER,^*** EDWARD O. GUERRANT,^**** KINGSLEY DIXON^*****

^*Kayri Havens (khavens@chicagobotanic.org) is director, at the Institute for Plant Conservation, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL 60022.
^**Pati Vitt is a conservation scientist, at the Institute for Plant Conservation, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL 60022.
^***They both have research interests in rare plant conservation using demographic and quantitative genetic techniques.
^****Mike Maunder is the director of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL 33156, and chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Plant Conservation Committee. He has interests in ex situ plant conservation research, international policy development, and capacity building.
^*****Edward O. Guerrant Jr. is conservation director of the Berry Botanic Garden, Portland, OR 97219, and has research interests in seed germination and storage and rare plant reintroduction.

Abstract

In recent years, the mission of many botanic gardens and arboreta has expanded from a traditional focus on developing a horticultural collection to one that includes taking a proactive role in plant conservation. To use their limited resources more effectively, many gardens are seeking ways to quantify their contributions to conservation efforts, both as a self-assessment tool to improve their effectiveness and as a way to give an explicit accounting of activities to donors and funding agencies. We suggest many ways gardens can measure the success of their conservation programs, and present results from a survey conducted to assess current conservation activities at botanic gardens.

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KAYRI HAVENS, PATI VITT, MIKE MAUNDER, EDWARD O. GUERRANT, and KINGSLEY DIXON "Ex Situ Plant Conservation and Beyond," BioScience 56(6), 525-531, (1 June 2006). https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[525:ESPCAB]2.0.CO;2

Published: 1 June 2006