Latin American and Caribbean botanic gardens: advances and challenges at national and regional levels
| Autor: | Teodolinda Balcázar Sol, Milcíades Mejía, Maria Lúcia M. Nova da Costa, Tânia Sampaio Pereira, Ana Faggi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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BOTANIC GARDENS
In situ conservation Latin Americans Ecology business.industry Otras Ciencias Biológicas CONSERVATION Environmental resource management Biodiversity Plant Science CARIBBEAN LATIN AMERICA Ciencias Biológicas Outreach SUSTAINABILITY Geography Flora (microbiology) Sustainability Land use land-use change and forestry business CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Ecosystem level COOPERATION |
| Zdroj: | Plant Ecology & Diversity. 5:259-263 |
| ISSN: | 1755-1668 1755-0874 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17550874.2012.730068 |
| Popis: | Background: The Association of Latin American and Caribbean Botanic Gardens (ALCJB) is a non-governmental organisation, dedicated to the investigation and conservation of plant diversity, and to the provision of outreach and education.Aims: The state of the art of the current conservation action of the ALCJB and its members are presented, and advances in achieving targets and further challenges are described.Results and conclusions: National Botanic Gardens (BGs) networks have played an important role in the conservation of national and regional biodiversity by consolidating existing gardens and supporting the creation of new ones, collaborating in the identification of flora, and in ex situ and in situ conservation. BGs promote education and implement mitigating actions at the ecosystem level to counter climate and land use change impacts on plant diversity. Such activities undertaken emphasise the new roles through which BGs can participate in conservation and promote sustainable ecosystem use. BGs have been implementing their action strategies based on a holistic vision of biodiversity that includes human activities and environmental changes. Motivated by significant progress of the national networks, the ALCJB has launched a new set of tasks to reach goals beyond the BGs integrating various dimensions of the environment. Fil: Faggi, Ana Maria. Jardín Botánico de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Costa, Maria Lúcia M. N. da. Brazilian Botanic Gardens Network; Brasil. Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden; Brasil Fil: Pereira, Tânia S.. Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden; Brasil Fil: Balcázar Sol, Teodolinda. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México Fil: Mejía, Milcíades. National Botanic Garden; República Dominicana |
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