Botanic Garden Collections - An Underutilised Resource

  • Region

    Global

  • Topic

    Conservation Prioritisation

  • Type

    News

  • Source

    BGCI

Paper published showing that botanic garden collections are an under utilised resource – for conservation and sustainable use research and development of socio-economically important species. 86.7% of the 6,941 socio-economic species are known in at least 1 botanic garden ex situ collection and 45% are found in 11 or more. This is more than in the crop and forestry community collections.

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Hudson, A. , Smith, P. , Gori, B. and Sharrock, S. (2021) Botanic Garden Collections—An Under-Utilised Resource. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 12, 1436-1444. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2021.129101.

 

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