Jeannie Raharimampionona

TL;DR: Analysis of field data and information from herbarium collections for members of the plant family Pandanaceae showed how risk of extinction assessments can inform conservation planning, and found centres of richness and rarity as well as gaps in Madagascar's existing protected area network.

TL;DR: The Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar project aims to evaluate and enumerate the native and naturalized vascular plant flora of Madagascar as mentioned in this paper, which is a collection of more than 4,100 species of vascular plants.

TL;DR: The Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) is supporting community-based conservation at 11 priority areas for plant conservation in Madagascar as discussed by the authors, which integrates a range of activities that include research and monitoring, the creation and policing of local rules to enable the sustainable use of natural resources, environmental education, the provision of alternatives to the unsustainable over-exploitation of natural resource, poverty alleviation, and the restoration of degraded ecosystems.

TL;DR: The Conspectus of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar Project is an international multi-institutional effort involving the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, the Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza, and the Centre National de la Recherche Appliquee au Developpement Rural.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the diagnostic process undertaken at Ibity Massif in order to disseminate the data gathered to inform establishment of the NPA; and summarize the initial state of the environment on the massif prior to the implementation of a management plan, as a baseline for assessing the effectiveness.