Reintroduction of Rare Plants: Genetics, Demography, and the Role of Ex Situ Conservation Methods

摘要: Many endangered plant species have been reduced to so few populations and such low numbers that timely collection storage of seed has become imperative. If donor extinct or seriously depleted, then off-site, ex situ, samples can be used reintroduce augment in the wild. The strategic value an situ component for conservation articulated by Falk (1987, 1990, 1992), who also helped establish Center Plant Conservation (CPC). CPC is a national network botanic gardens arboreta attempting assemble genetically representative our nation’s most rare plants while it still possible do so.