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Providing a quantitative assessment of threatened plant populations, that holds for varying management scenarios, has become an essential part of conservation planning. Here, renowned plant ecologists provide information on: major threats to plants, when and where to conduct a plant viability assessment (PVA), what type of PVA to conduct, what alternative options to PVA are available, what information is required for which kind of viability assessment, what attributes of the population in question should be considered, and what the limits of the PVA would be. As such, this volume can be used as a training tool for the environmental manager or a teaching aid for reviewing the current state of knowledge on plant population viability.
List of contents
Why Plant Population Viability Assessment?- Threats to Plant Population Viability: An Introduction.- Factors Affecting Persistence in Formerly Common and Historically Rare Plants.- The Relationship Between Plant-Pathogen and Plant-Herbivore Interactions and Plant Population Persistence in a Fragmented Landscape.- The Origin and Extinction of Species Through Hybridization.- Approaches to Modeling Population Viability in Plants: An Overview.- The Problem and Potential of Count-Based Population Viability Analyses (PVAs).- Habitat Models for PVA.- Assessing Population Viability in Long-Lived Plants.- Considering Interactions: Incorporating Biotic Interactions into Viability Assessment.- Modeling the Effects of Disturbance, Spatial Variation and Environmental Heterogeneity on Population Viability of Plants.- Projecting the Success of Plant Restoration with PVA.- Plant Population Viability: Where to from Here?
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Providing a quantitative assessment of threatened plant populations, that holds for varying management scenarios, has become an essential part of conservation planning. Here, renowned plant ecologists provide information on: major threats to plants, when and where to conduct a plant viability assessment (PVA), what type of PVA to conduct, what alternative options to PVA are available, what information is required for which kind of viability assessment, what attributes of the population in question should be considered, and what the limits of the PVA would be. As such, this volume can be used as a training tool for the environmental manager or a teaching aid for reviewing the current state of knowledge on plant population viability.
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From the reviews:
"It provides a comprehensive review of the threats to plant population persistence and how to quantify them, and shows both the great potential and the limits of the PVA approach." (Basic and Applied Ecology)
"Population viability analysis (PVA) is increasingly becoming an important tool for conservationists. … The book edited by Brigham and Schwartz … presents an up-to-date review of the use of PVA for plants … . This is a very valuable … book for everyone interested in rare plant conservation. It provides a comprehensive review of the threats to plant population persistence and how to quantify them, and shows both the great potential and the limits of the PVA approach." (Diethart Matthies, Basic and Applied Ecology, Issue 5, 2004)
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From the reviews:
"It provides a comprehensive review of the threats to plant population persistence and how to quantify them, and shows both the great potential and the limits of the PVA approach." (Basic and Applied Ecology)
"Population viability analysis (PVA) is increasingly becoming an important tool for conservationists. ... The book edited by Brigham and Schwartz ... presents an up-to-date review of the use of PVA for plants ... . This is a very valuable ... book for everyone interested in rare plant conservation. It provides a comprehensive review of the threats to plant population persistence and how to quantify them, and shows both the great potential and the limits of the PVA approach." (Diethart Matthies, Basic and Applied Ecology, Issue 5, 2004)
