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This chapter focuses on ex situ (off-site) conservation, which is the protection and management of biodiversity in artificial, human-built environments. Indeed, ex situ conservation allows wild-caught individuals to be maintained under close human supervision in facilities like zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, or arboretums.
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This chapter focuses on ex situ (off-site) conservation, which is the protection and management of biodiversity in artificial, human-built environments. Indeed, ex situ conservation allows wild-caught individuals to be maintained under close human supervision in facilities like zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, or arboretums.
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The science and economics of ex situ plant conservation
Trends in Plant Science, 2009Ex situ seed storage underpins global agriculture and food supplies and enables the conservation of thousands of wild species of plants within national and international facilities. As an insurance policy against extinction, ex situ seed conservation is estimated to cost as little as 1% of in situ conservation.
De-Zhu, Li, Hugh W, Pritchard
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The Future of Ex Situ Conservation
2000It is with great trepidation that we attempt in this final chapter to address what we believe may be the major issues that Ex Situ conservationists will be forced to confront and attempt to resolve in the next ten to fifty years, let alone the whole of the new millennium.
J. G. Hawkes +2 more
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Captive breeding and ex situ conservation
2013Abstract Primates began the arduous journey out of their native countries and into captive collections in the late nineteenth century. However, their survival was severely limited by a lack of natural history knowledge and husbandry requirements. In the decades to follow, primate survivorship and propagation in zoos greatly increased. By
Dean Gibson, Colleen McCann
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Preparing To Collect for Ex Situ Conservation
2000A conservation project will most commonly be commissioned by an institute or organisation and will usually take the form of a statement. It will outline the objectives, breadth of the target taxon and target area to be investigated, as well as outlining any specific requirements, such as whether the conservation should focus on in situ or Ex Situ ...
J. G. Hawkes +2 more
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Ex situ conservation and exploitation of fungi in Italy
Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, 2011Abstract The kingdom Fungi comprises one of the most diverse groups of living organisms. They are numerous, ubiquitous and undertake many roles both independently and in association with other organisms. Fungi display a wide diversity of forms also mirrored by functional diversity and play such a dominant role in human society that they are arguably ...
G. C. VARESE +14 more
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Ex situ conservation of plant germplasm using biotechnology
World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology, 1995Conservation of plant genetic resources attracts more and more public interest as the only way to guarantee adequate food supplies for future human generations. However, the conservation and subsequent use of such resources are complicated by cultural, economical, technical and political issues.
V M, Villalobos, F, Engelmann
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Ex Situ Conservation of Grain Legumes
2001The major food legumes that originated in the Mediterranean and that are important in this region include chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), lentil (Lens culinaris L.), and faba bean (Viciafaba L.). Lentil is an ancient cool-season field legume that has been traditionally grown in the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, Ethiopia, North Africa, and to a ...
Larry D. Robertson, Nigel Maxted
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Preserving Population Allele Frequencies in Ex Situ Conservation Programs
Conservation Biology, 2008Abstract: Optimization of contributions of parents to progeny by minimizing the average coancestry of the progeny is an effective strategy for maintaining genetic diversity in ex situ conservation programs, but its application on the basis of molecular markers has the negative collateral effect of homogenizing ...
Saura, María +4 more
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Ex Situ Conservation of Forage Legumes
2001This chapter analyses progress and the current status of ex situ conservation of 739 species of 27 genera of forage legumes in relation to their natural distribution. Analysis is based on passport data of individual accessions. As such, the scope of the chapter is restricted to those collections for which the authors have been granted access to ...
Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton +2 more
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