This study received financial support from the Science and Technology Department of Yunnan University,China(2019YNU002);Major Program for Basic Research Project of Yunnan Province,China(202101BC070002);the Special Foundation for National Science and Technology Basic Resources Investigation of China(2019FY202300).
Pseudotsuga forrestii is a relict evergreen coniferous tree species in Pinaceae endemic to China.P.forrestii tree numbers have greatly decreased due to deforestation,over-utilization and habitat degradation.Here we cl...
financial support to Ministry of Environment,Forest and Climate Change,Government of India(No.14/25/2011-ERS/RE).
In the state Meghalaya,northeast India,>80%of the forest lands are owned by local communities and managed by traditional institutions.These forests are under severe threats due to a number of human disturbances.The pr...
As an introduction to the Special Issue on the restoration of threatened plant species and their habitats,this editorial shows how the various papers in the issue address the range of in situ interventions involved in...
There is an urgent need for a new conservation approach as mere designation of protected areas, the primary approach to conserving biodiversity, revealed its low conservation efficiency and inability to cope with nume...
funded by Australian and Western Australian government threatened species and natural resources management initiatives;Geraldton Regional Herbarium Group;Central West College of Technical and Further Education;Northern Agricultural Catchment Council;Western Mulga, Greenough Regional Prison;City of Geraldton Community Nursery;the Department of Environment and Energy's ‘20 Million Trees Program’ and Western Australian State Natural Resource Management Program.
The Southwest Australian Floristic Region(SWAFR) is a global biodiversity hotspot with high plant diversity and endemism and a broad range of threatening processes. An outcome of this is a high proportion of rare and ...
Global Trees Campaign, Flora and Fauna International, University of East Anglia;the Sir Philip Reckitt Educational Trust for funding this research
The Araucaria forest ecosystem in southern Brazil is highly threatened: less than one percent of the original forest remains, and what is left is a fragmented agro-mosaic of mostly early-to-late secondary forest patch...
financially supporting (80%) the CARE-MEDIFLORA project
In situ conservation is widely considered a primary conservation strategy. Plant translocation, specifically, represents an important tool for reducing the extinction risk of threatened species. However, thus far, few...
performed within the framework of the state research project F3MV-2016e0914113123
Translocation is a recognized means of rescuing imperiled species but the evidence for the long-term success of translocations is limited. We report the successful translocation of reproductive individuals of a critic...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos. 31460050 and 31760048 to Yong-Hong Zhang)
Cypripedium tibeticum is a threatened orchid which efficient conservation requires knowledge of its extent and structure of genetic variation. Using two chloroplast DNA fragments(rps16 and trnL-F), we analyzed 157 ind...