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Evaluating approaches to the conservation of rare and endangered plants
Douglas W. Schemske,Brian C. Husband,Mary Ruckelshaus,Carol Goodwillie,Ingrid M. Parker,John G. Bishop +5 more
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Evaluating approaches to the conservation of rare and endangered plants and their impacts on threatened and endangered species in the wild is a good place to start.Abstract:
Schemske, D.W., B. C. Husband, M.H. Ruckelshaus, C. Goodwillie, I.M. Parker, and J.G. Bishop. 1994. Evaluating approaches to the conservation of rare and endangered plants. Ecology 75: 584-606.read more
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Quantifying threats to imperiled species in the united states
TL;DR: Surprisingly, there have been surprisingly few analyses of the extent to which each of these factors-much less the more specific deeds encomDavid S. Wilcove is a senior ecologist at the Environmental Defense Fund and David Rothstein re ceived his J.D. in 1997 from Northeastern
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ENDANGERED MUTUALISMS: The Conservation of Plant-Pollinator Interactions
TL;DR: Recent declines in honeybee numbers in the United States and Europe bring home the importance of healthy pollination systems, and the need to further develop native bees and other animals as crop pollinators.
Endangered Ecosystems of the United States: A Preliminary Assessment of Loss and Degradation
Reed F. Noss,Edward T. LaRoe +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report estimates of declines of natural ecosystems in the United States, provide a rationale for ecosystem-level conservation, discuss decline and threat as criteria for conservation, and relate ecosystem losses to endangerment at species and population levels.
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Adaptive population divergence: markers, QTL and traits
John K. McKay,Robert G. Latta +1 more
TL;DR: Molecular markers appear to be poor indicators of heritable variation in adaptive traits, but recent theoretical and simulation studies suggest that F st is a better predictor of the pattern of allelic differentiation at quantitative trait loci (QTLs) than is Q st in random mating populations, in which case allelic variation at QTLs might be better assessed by molecular markers.
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Regional dynamics of plants : a review of evidence for remnant, source-sink and metapopulations
TL;DR: It is suggested that a concept of local population inertia in remnant population systems, scales to higher level phenomena of vegetation inertia, and to community stabilization (through enhanced recovery after perturbations) may contribute to explain cases of exceptionally high species diversity, and lack of pronounced mass extinctions of plants in the fossil record.
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