Plant Conservation for the Next Decade, 12-16 October 2009
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The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is not responsible for the content of these filesPlenary lecture:
Professor Sir Ghillean T Prance FRS VMH: A brief history of conservation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Plant conservation: policies and politics
Dr Kayri Havens: Assisted migration of plants: Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Dr Colin Clubbe: Using the GSPC to guide conservation implementation in the UK Overseas Territories
Dr Suzanne Sharrock: The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: planning ahead for global change
Dr Simon Stuart: IUCN’s vision for plant conservation assessments as a contribution to the GSPC
Frontiers of plant conservation technology
Dr Viswambharan Sarasan: Importance of in vitro technology to future conservation programmes worldwide
Dr Alex Monro: A novel approach to integrating remote-sensed wavelength and field based biodiversity data
Prof Rob Marrs: The potential effects of aggressive species in British woodlands
Prof Jin Chen: Transition of botanical garden management philosophy in the new generation botanical gardens
Plant conservation and agriculture
Dr Nigel Maxted: A global approach to crop wild relative conservation: securing our food and agriculture gene pool
Prof Cary Fowler: Preparing agriculture for the 21st Century: towards a global system of genebanks
Dr Emile Frison: Genebanks: moving beyond ex-situ conservation
Dr Paul Smith: The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership: enabling adaptation and innovation
Plant conservation: management and restoration
Dr Avi Perevolotsky: Plant conservation in Mediterranean ecosystems: An adaptive management approach
Dr Claudia Baider and Dr Vincent Florens: An appraisal of the effectiveness of manual control of invasive alien plants to conserve the native flora of wet lowland forests remnants of Mauritius
Ms Anne Cochrane: Inter situ conservation: integrating in situ and ex situ conservation to recover threatened endemic flora in South West Western Australia
Dr Peter Cuneo: Much more than seeds in the bank: the building of a seed conservation network across Australia
Plant conservation and human cultures
Dr Joseph Cobbinah*: Unlocking the potential of tropical Africa plants: the PROTA initiative
Mr Oliver Whaley: An ecosystem approach to habitat restoration and sustainable management of southern Peruvian dry forest
Dr Andrew Vovides: Cycad propagation by rural nurseries in Mexico as an alternative conservation strategy: 20 years later
Plant conservation: what can we afford to lose?
Leng Guan Saw*: Conservation of rare, endangered and endemic plants in Malaysia
Dr Eve Lucas: Predicting biodiversity and prioritising areas for conservation using herbarium specimens [See: Murray-Smith, C., Brummitt, N.A., Oliveira-Filho A.T., Bachman, S., Nic Lughadha, E.M., Moat, J. & Lucas, E.J. (2008), Plant Diversity Hotspots in the Atlantic Coastal Forests of Brazil Cons. Bio. 23 (1) 151–163]
Dr William Milliken: What we don’t know about the Amazon and how much does it matter?
Plenary lecture:
Ms Sara Oldfield: Progress in plant conservation – are we saving the world?
