Overview
- Summarizes our current knowledge of how threats affect rare plant viability
- Provides guidance for how and when to conduct viability analyses
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 165)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Threats to Plant Population Viability
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Modeling Approaches for Population Viability Analysis
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Addressing Plant Life Histories in Population Viability Analysis
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Conclusions
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About this book
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.
Reviews
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)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Population Viability in Plants
Book Subtitle: Conservation, Management, and Modeling of Rare Plants
Editors: Christy A. Brigham, Mark W. Schwartz
Series Title: Ecological Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09389-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-43909-7Published: 24 March 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07869-9Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-09389-4Published: 29 June 2013
Series ISSN: 0070-8356
Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 366
Topics: Plant Ecology, Community & Population Ecology, Plant Sciences, Environmental Management, Nature Conservation