Plant life on gypsum: a review of its multiple facets

A Escudero, S Palacio, FT Maestre… - Biological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptation of plants to particular soil types has long intrigued biologists. Gypsum soils
occupy large areas in many regions of the world and host a striking biological diversity, but …

Threatened biotas:" hot spots" in tropical forests

N Myers - Environmentalist, 1988 - Springer
The mass-extinction episode underway is largely centred on tropical forests, insofar as they
contain at least half of all Earth's species and they are being depleted faster than any other …

[图书][B] Applied ethnobotany: people, wild plant use and conservation

AB Cunningham - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
Its wise and sensitive approach to working with local people will be relevant in situations
throughout the world.'ECOS'The numerous diagrams, tables of data, information flow charts …

[PDF][PDF] African medicinal plants

AB Cunningham - … Scientific and Cultural Organization: Paris, France, 1993 - uodiyala.edu.iq
African medicinal plants Page 1 to People and Plants Initiative, Division of Ecological Sciences,
UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris CEDEX 07 SP, France. This series of working …

Global patterns of plant diversity and floristic knowledge

G Kier, J Mutke, E Dinerstein, TH Ricketts… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Aims We present the first global map of vascular plant species richness by ecoregion and
compare these results with the published literature on global priorities for plant conservation …

A checklist of the trees, shrubs, herbs, and climbers of Myanmar

WJ Kress, RA DeFilipps, E Farr… - Contributions from the …, 2003 - academia.edu
A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs, and Climbers of Myanmar Page 1 SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION Contributions from the United States National Herbarium Volume 45: 1-590 SUB …

[PDF][PDF] Establishment of a global network for the in situ conservation of crop wild relatives: status and needs

N Maxted, SP Kell - FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and …, 2009 - fao.org
There are many potential approaches to systematic CWR conservation. But as every country
contains CWR diversity, they are obliged as signatories to the CBD and ITPGRFA, or other …

[PDF][PDF] Global centers of vascular plant diversity

D Rafiqpoor, G Kier, H Kreft - Nova Acta Leopoldina NF, 2005 - academia.edu
The diversity of vascular plants is very unevenly distributed across the globe. The five
centres that reach species richness of more than 5,000 spp./10,000 km2 (Costa Rica-Chocó …

Conservation of rare and endangered plants using in vitro methods

MF Fay - In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant, 1992 - Springer
Many botanic gardens now have tissue culture laboratories for the micropropagation of
plants that are difficult to propagate by conventional horticultural techniques. In many cases …

How many species of seed plants are there?

R Govaerts - Taxon, 2001 - JSTOR
Most of the figures quoted for numbers of species of seed plants over large geographical
areas have been based on subjective estimates rather than objective data analysis. Reliable …