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Biodiversity Conservation
Biodiversity conservation strategies encompass both in situ and ex situ methods. In situ conservation focuses on protecting species and ecosystems in...
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Conservation
Conservation can be broadly defined as “actions that are intended to establish, improve, or maintain good relations with nature,” which may occur as...
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Marine Otter Conservation
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to conservation issues related to the marine otter (Lontra felina). The main goal is the...
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Nature Conservation A Critical Introduction
Many things happen in nature reserves that are contradictory at first glance. For example, flower meadows are mown down during maintenance work, even...
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Why Nature Conservation?
Nature conservation presupposes a certain historical situation: industrialization as well as the rise of the bourgeois way of thinking. In terms of...
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Conservation Approaches of Plant Genetic Resources
The vast pool of biodiversity and genetic variation among plant species and its indubitable role in selection and crop improvement have prompted a...
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Malus Species: Germplasm Conservation and Utilization
Malus species is important not only from the point of economics but also from a cultural and nutritional point of view. Most of the Malus species are...
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Effects of future climate change on rare and endangered species in inner Mongolia, China: Vulnerability, priority conservation areas and sustainable conservation strategies
Rare and endangered species have narrow geographical distributions and are vulnerable to environmental changes. Studying the impact of future climate...
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Ex situ conservation of threatened species of the flora of Cyprus: current status and future priorities with respect to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation Target 8
Cyprus is located in the eastern part of the Mediterranean, which is considered one of the world’s richest biodiversity hotspots characterised by...
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Protecting commonplace biodiversity under international conservation law
A contemporary appraisal of the extent to which international conservation law provides for the protection of commonplace biodiversity. It is argued...
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Conservation of the Lymnaeidae
Like many other groups of freshwater Mollusca, the lymnaeid snails are prone to extinction, the main cause of which is currently habitat degradation....
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Conservation Without Life Forms
The natural historical language of life forms has hardly ever been central to, and is only becoming more and more irrelevant, to the outcomes of...
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Climate co-benefits of tiger conservation
Biodiversity conservation is increasingly being recognized as an important co-benefit in climate change mitigation programmes that use nature-based...
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Micropropagation Applications in Conservation of Horticultural Crops
The scenario of climate change and its impact leads to the emergence of new challenges to biodiversity and future productivity. The protection of...
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Nature Conservation Versus Zeitgeist?
As has been repeatedly emphasized, biology is in no way to be equated with nature conservation, nor is the latter to be derived directly from...
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Capturing conservation in the post-genomics era: a book review of “Conservation and the Genomics of Populations.”
Conservation genetics is a relatively new discipline, and yet has rapidly evolved in the last decade with massive advances in sequencing...
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Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation
The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide....
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Conservation Genetics in the Neotropics
This book explores how genetics and the new technologies in genomics have been used for conservation of plants and animals in the Neotropics. It...
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Assessing conservation outcomes and maximizing habitat connectivity for multiple species in systematic conservation plans: a case study in Yolo County, California
ContextHabitat connectivity is key when designing reserve networks for conservation of species at risk. Acquiring land over time to achieve...
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Environmental Conservation for Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is an effective approach towards environmental conservation. While agriculture provides food and livelihood for millions of...