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Perspectives on orchid conservation in botanic gardens
Trends in Plant Science, 2009Orchids, one of the largest families of flowering plants, face an uncertain future through overexploitation, habitat loss and impacts of climate change. With their intricate abiotic and biotic dependencies, orchids typify the plight of global plant resources and, thus, provide ideal model species for ecological tracking and focussing conservation ...
Swarts, N., Dixon, Kingsley
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Destruction and Conservation of Turkish Orchids
2002Turkey is a rich country of terrestrial orchids.The first list of Turkish orchids was prepared by myself in 19761,2 after “Flora Orientalis”. Later, different investigations had also been made on the orchids of Turkey3,12. Orchidaceae part was prepared by Renz and Taubenheim in “Flora of Turkey”13 in 1984.
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Orchid Diversity: Conservation and Utilization
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2012The orchids are highly diverse, habitat specific and actively evolving plants, known for their beautiful and long-lasting flowers. They are amenable to variety improvement and have added significantly to the growth of international trade in cut flowers and potted plants. The orchids are cultivated as a cash crop in several countries.
S. P. Vij, Promila Pathak
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Orchid Conservation and Mycorrhizal Associations
2006Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, West Perth 6005, Western Australia. (correspondence) Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia.
Andrew L. Batty +3 more
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The Challenge: Orchid Conservation
2019Every year tens of millions of orchid plants are stripped from the wild to supply traders of medicinal or edible plants. In some areas where orchids were formerly growing in great profusion, it is now difficult to find the species for which the area was once famous. Conservation is therefore a hotly debated topic.
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The conservation of terrestrial orchids
2011Orchids include some of the rarest and most beautiful plants in nature, but their existence in Lombardy is intimately intertwined with agriculture and traditional ways of life throughout the richly diverse geographic landscape of the region. This book charts the spread of orchids alongside traditional agricultural methods and, following the tumultuous ...
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Conservation of Orchids the Gems of the Tropics
2012Most tropical orchids originate from tropical rain forests with complex ecosystems, making them one of the most endangered group of plants. Many countries have set regulations to protect their orchids, however not all of them are proven effective to prevent the loss of orchid species in the wild.
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Sources of Medicinal Orchids and Conservation
2016Unprecedented population growth, industrialisation, mining and motorised vehicle transport have led to rapid depletion of natural resources, shrinkage of forests and reduction in wild species numbers or even their disappearance. In the case of medicinal orchids, the factors which decide whether a species is under threat are threefold: (1) the volume of
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