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Topic: Conservation (botany)

	Tropical Ecology & Conservation Web Portal
		Department of Botany > Courses > Tropical Ecology and Conservation
		If you are looking for a thorough review of the diverse ecological systems found in the tropics, integrated with discussions of what is being done to protect them, then this course is an excellent choice for you.
		Botany 575 / Envir St 400 is aimed at biology and non-biology majors interested in learning about the science underpinning major tropical systems.
	www.botany.wisc.edu /courses/botany_575 (304 words)

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		Many international plant conservation groups and organisations are using orchids as flagship species in the conservation debate and to raise public awareness of the perilous nature of global plant conservation.
		He is responsible for management of the garden’s conservation and restoration science programs including major state facilities in tissue culture, cryogenics, conservation genetics, propagation science and restoration ecology.
		She is co-author of and tutor for the Master of Science in Biodiversity Conservation offered by the University of London External Programme, and is also currently employed by the University of Birmingham as Project Officer for the European Community funded project, European Crop Wild Relative Diversity Assessment and Conservation Forum.
	www.nhpborneo.com /onlinestore/product_details.asp?id=839 (1502 words)

	Botany Department, Smithsonian Institution
		Conserved and Rejected Plant Names: Proposals and Disposals
		Links to Botany's national and international partners in research, collections, training, and public outreach.
		The Department of Botany hosts events and activities throughout the year to explore and recognize achievements in the botanical community.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany (371 words)

	COMMUNITY IN CONSERVATION
		This is applied to soil resource degradation and the implementation of soil conservation policy in a Colombian farming system.
		Atlantic Forest remnants are top priority conservation areas, and include native communities that depend on fish and small-scall agriculture.
		“Forest-dwelling Native Amazonians and the conservation of biodiversity.” Conservation Biology 7(2): 248-255.
	www.yale.edu /sangha/CICB/CICB_HTML/CICB_LA1.htm (5001 words)

	Water Conservation & Marine Life Protection Directory to North American Environmental organizations, publications ...
		- a voluntary association of conservation, fishing, and Alaska Native organizations, whose goal it is to restore and maintain healthy marine ecosystems in Alaska.
		- Main objective of STRT is to ensure the conservation of sea turtles (Caretta caretta ve Chelonia mydas) nesting on the Mediterranean beaches of Turkey and are potentially in danger of becoming extinct.
		- dedicated to the conservation of marine mammals and their habitats worldwide, through research and education.
	environmentdirectorywaterconservation.com (1222 words)

	Plant Conservation in Canada
		Botanical experts suggest that close to one third of the vascular plants on earth are threatened with extinction in the next 30 years unless action is taken to protect them.
		Protecting local biodiversity and genetic variation within each species are therefore also important to the conservation of plants and their habitats.
		While there are between 70 and 100 Canadian botanical gardens, arboreta and related facilities that maintain plant collections and are open to the public, not all of these have a scientific basis for their collections or thorough documentation.
	www.bgci.org /canada/plants_conservation (1080 words)

	Georgia Plant Conservation Alliance \| About the Alliance \| Member Profiles
		She was the 1994 recipient of the Catherine Beattie Fellowship for horticulture conservation awarded by the Center for Plant Conservation and the Garden Club of America, which allowed her to travel to six botanical gardens with well-established conservation programs to study their work.
		Research interests include plant conservation genetics, the genetic consequences of fragmentation of natural plant populations, and investigation of factors (particularly mating systems, gene flow and ecological correlates) that affect the genetic structure of plant populations.
		Hamrick is a professor staffed jointly in the Botany and Genetics Departments at the University of Georgia.
	www.uga.edu /gpca/profiles.html (1865 words)

	Graduate Program - University of Hawai`i at Manoa Botany
		The Botany Department offers graduate education in a wide range of botanical specialties, with emphasis placed on tropical botany and conservation.
		At least 6 (but not more than 9) of the Botany credits must be for directed research in aspects of botanical sciences chosen by the candidate in consultation with his or her committee.
		The candidate is examined in general botany as well as in-depth areas of the botanical sciences that have been previously agreed upon by the student and the committee.
	www.botany.hawaii.edu /graduateprogram.htm (1443 words)

	UHM Graduate Studies - Botany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Although UHM has utilized facilities at the above organizations and cooperative research is not uncommon with their researchers, they are not affiliated with the university and permission for usage of facilities at these sites and/or communication with their researchers should be made directly to the individual organizations.
		The PBFS is positioned adjacent to three Natural Area Reserves and is ideally located for conservation studies of rare and endangered species, the ecology of native intact forest, ecological restoration, and biology of invasive species.
		The unit's primary focus is on the conservation of Hawai'i's natural resources in protected habitats, such as national parks and wildlife refuges and the state's natural area reserves.
	www.hawaii.edu /graduatestudies/fields/html/departments/ab/botany/botany.htm (1661 words)

	Botany Photo of the Day
		Botany Photo of the Day will have brief written entries on weekends, holidays and my vacations from April through September.
		Botany Photo of the Day Widget for Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger).
		UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research is a department of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
	www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org /potd (953 words)

	Botany 2000 - Symposium: Biology and Conservation of the Ophioglossaceae--A Tribute to Warren "Herb" Wagner Index, By ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Botany 2000 - Symposium: Biology and Conservation of the Ophioglossaceae--A Tribute to Warren "Herb" Wagner Index, By Title
		Biology and conservation of the Ophioglossaceae-A tribute to Warren "Herb" Wagner.
		Conservation Status of the Ophioglossaceae in the Northeast.
	www.botany.org /bsa/portland/sympos5/abstracts/title.shtml (240 words)

	Botany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Conservation Bibliography searchable literature database on gopher, from the Smithsonian Institution, USA.
		The American Journal of Botany is a journal accepting refereed research papers on all aspects of plant biology, published monthly.
		Edinburgh Journal of Botany is an international journal of plant systematics and related aspects of biodiversity, conservation science and phytogeography.
	c-library.um.ac.ir /botany.asp (4373 words)

	Biological Conservation Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The group is composed of concerned citizens of Loreto interested in the study, conservation, rescue, and development of the environmental and ecological equilibrium of the Baja California peninsula.
		Local conservation groups including Program for Belize and the Monteverde Institute are paid for their assistance in conducting the courses.
		Magin, C. and Greth, A. Distribution, status, and proposals for the conservation of mountain gazelle Gazella gazella cora in south-west Saudi Arabia.
	ravenel.si.edu /bcn/issue/143.cfm (3140 words)

	Botany Staffing and Funding
		Unfortunately, the resources allocated to biodiversity research and conservation have not kept pace with the increases in threats to habitats and species, or with the numbers of species listed under Federal sensitive species programs and the Federal Endangered Species Act.
		Unless these obstacles are removed so that plant conservation programs can be effective and successful, efforts to conserve native species and ecosystems that depend on native plants are doomed to failure.
		Botany understaffing means that some of the many imperiled plants in the U.S. are disappearing from public lands simply due to lack of personnel to perform routine, and legally required, surveys and monitoring.
	www.plantsocieties.org /botany.htm (1242 words)

	Botany: Species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The glossary is composed of three sections: (i) a general glossary, (ii) a glossary of terms pertinent primarily to cell biology and molecular genetics, (iii) a glossary of crop scientific nomenclature.
		Economic Botany is the study of plants as they relate to human use.
		On the UCLA campus, Professor Arthur C. Gibson has since 1984 taught a course on economic botany, entitled "Plants and Civilization." You are invited to read these "fun" essays on plants, to thereby appreciate roles that plants played in the history of civilization and perform in our society today.
	www.nbii.gov /disciplines/botany/appliedsci.html (2348 words)

	Conservation/Biodiversity Sites
		Description: The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
		It is composed of scientists, (experts in endangered species, island flora and fauna, and island ecosystems) who donate their time to assist indigenous peoples in the conservation of their rainforests.
		Description: This nonprofit, grassroots membership organization aims to conserve and restore native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada and their native habitats, while ensuring an abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for generations to come.
	www.herbalgram.org /?c=conservation (744 words)

	Amazon Conservation Association -
		We look forward to initiating the legal process of establishing the new Conservation Concession with the participation, advice and consent of our neighbors there and the conservation community at large in Peru.
		With over 300,000 acres of pristine habitat to explore in the Los Amigos Concession, ACA researchers and partner institutions have been gathering significant data on the flora and fauna of Los Amigos, using advanced radio telemetry, GIS technology and old-fashioned slogging in the mud to test their hypotheses.
		Since the groundbreaking establishment of ACA's conservation concession in Los Amigos, other organizations have begun to take notice and are working to establish new conservation concessions in Peru.
	www.amazonconservation.org /home/news_from_the_field.htm (1237 words)

	Yale F&ES Career Development Office: Conservation Biology (3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		National Audubon Society To conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds and other wildlife for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.
		The Smithsonian is a resource in careers in biology, conservation, and oceanography.
		Discussion for members of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) and others interested in developing the scientific and technical means for the protection, maintenance, and restoration of life on this planet.
	www.yale.edu /fescareers/cdo_conbio.htm (1370 words)

	Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre - botany program
		The role of the AC CDC's Botany Program is to compile and disseminate the most current information available on vascular plants and bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) in Atlantic Canada, with an emphasis on those species that are provincially rare.
		This is done by filling in a ranking matrix, which is standard across the international network of conservation data centres, and factoring in each criterion to come up with an S-rank.
		AC CDC Botany Program field efforts have been very extensive and successful in the last three years, producing many hundreds of new records for rare species and more than 20 new provincial records in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
	www.accdc.com /programs/botany (1509 words)

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		FROM E.O. 'The Conservation Handbook is a very welcome addition to the literature and armamentarium of conservation practice.
		I believe that many conservation problems and solutions are similar everywhere, regardless of whether in polar, temperate or tropical regions, or how affluent the region, or whether the conservation is part of an international programme or focused on conserving a small area.
		Basic methods for conservation development projects: key questions - participatory research and monitoring techniques - stakeholder analysis - problem trees and objective trees - options analysis - logical framework analysis - risk analysis - identifying and allocating tasks - stakeholder participation matrix - Capacity Building.
	www.nhbs.com /info/sutherland/conservation_handbook.html (1327 words)

	Biological Conservation Newsletter
		Beenen, R. Possibilities for conservation and rehabilitation of populations of Chrysomelidae in a cultivated environment.
		Flannery, M.C. The conservation aesthetic and the microscopic aesthetic.
		Lovette, I.J., Bermingham, E., and Ricklefs, R.E. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and the conservation of endangered Lesser Antillean Icterus orioles.
	ravenel.si.edu /bcn/issue/181.cfm (4159 words)

	Ramsar site management plans -- Australia, Towra Point, NSW
		Conservation of the nature reserve and migratory bird habitats on the southern shores of Botany Bay is dependent on a commitment by all tiers of government and the community to support management programs.
		Conservation of this area is therefore considered to be crucial to the maintenance of biodiversity in the region.
		To conserve for existing and future generations, significant Aboriginal and historic cultural heritage, and to encourage public awareness, appreciation of and participation in protection of cultural heritage values of the reserve.
	www.ramsar.org /wurc/wurc_mgtplan_australia_towra1.htm (11215 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Biology: Botany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Botany Encyclopedia - Includes a botanical dictionary, advice for gardeners, and a store selling plants.
		Center for Plant Conservation - Collaborative organization dedicated to conserving and restoring the rare native plants of the United States.
		Root Biology and Mycorrhiza Research Group - Descriptions of current research projects at the Department of Botany, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
	dmoz.org /Science/Biology/Botany (405 words)

	Botany Teacher Resources - NBII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Included are a sections devoted to plant anatomy and biological processes; plant growth from seed to seedling; invasive and endangered plants; science experiments with plants; a hyperlinked glossary of terms; a quiz; and a directory of related links.
		Included are discussions of the environmental and economic impacts of invasive weeds, mechanisms for their spread and propagation, and suggestions for classroom discussions and activities for investigating this important environmental issue.
		This study presents examples of the diversity of the major plant groups, and is designed so that the user can browse all, or specific, plant descriptions.
	www.nbii.gov /education/botany.html (1637 words)

	Natural Selection: subject gateway to the natural world
		Botany and microbiology at the University of Oklahoma
		The research activities of the Botany Department at Geisenheim focus on "the improvement of in vitro-techniques (micropropagation, developmental biology of regeneration, somatic embryogenesis, gene transfer) as well as the development of regeneration and transformation protocols in grapevine rootstocks and asparagus".
		The Institute is a research division of the Carnegie Mellon University and specialises in the history of botany and all aspects of plant sciences, serving the international scientific community through research and documentation.
	nature.ac.uk /browse/580.6.html (10521 words)

	Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Research
		These data are provided to support global efforts to conserve, study, and appreciate the diversity of palms.
		Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is an international leader in introducing new cultivars, conserving germplasm collections, and providing tropical fruit information and genetic material to the industry and the general public.
		Several interactive keys are available to help determine the species of a particular plant by examining its characteristics, including one for the Flowering Plant Families of Jamaica.
	www.ftg.org /research/n_research.html (751 words)

	LookSmart - Directory - Botany: Conservation of Native and Threatened Flora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Botany: Conservation of Native and Threatened Flora - Provides data on native plant species, threats, habitat restoration, and preservation of critical ecosystems.
		NANPS is devoted to the study, conservation, cultivation, and restoration of native plants.
		Join the Zeal community and help build the "Botany: Conservation of Native and Threatened Flora" Directory Category.
	lsxml.looksmart.com /p/browse/us1/us317836/us317914/us55998/us227631 (187 words)

	Education Programmes
		ecology, conservation, ecosystems, biodiversity, species-at-risk, botany, and ethnobotany
		A broad range of conservation related topics are presented to the three year horticulture diploma students including: integrated pest management, resource conservation, invasive species management, wildlife and native plant gardening
		Extensive school and children's camp programme covering a range of concepts such as ecology, biology, botany, conservation, habitats and communities, biodiversity, ecosystems and species at risk
	www.bgci.org /canada/edu_pgms (1612 words)

	Ecology and Conservation of Native Plants of Galapagos, Department of Botany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Ecology and Conservation of Native Plants of Galapagos, Department of Botany
		The Area of Ecology and Conservation of Native Plants, Charles Darwin Research Station, works to better understand the ecology of native plants, and in turn be able to develop methods for restoration and protection of threatened populations.
		This area is working to update the existing knowledge of native flora, with emphasis on endemic species, by revising the existing data and through a series of field trips.
	www.darwinfoundation.org /terrest/Botany/native.html (477 words)

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