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Does integrated conservation of terrestrial orchids work?

conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 05:30 authored by Nigel SwartsNigel Swarts, Batty, AL, Hopper, SD, Dixon, KW
Effective plant conservation involves careful consideration and difficult choices when investing limited resources to conservation programs and policies. The conservation practice must integrate. the understanding of existing and future environmental threats, taxonomic distinctiveness, numbers of individuals in populations, reproductive biology, ex situ propagation and the maintenance of evolutionary processes influencing population distribution patterns. For this to be possible, conservation should involve detailed experimentation directed at continued survival of the species in both an on site (in situ) ecological context and off site (ex situ) laboratory based context (Ramsay & Dixon, 2003). Thus the development of effective conservation strategies, must strike a balance between the need for urgent action to avoid further loss and the search for essential information and understanding of the species or ecosystem to be conserved. The integrated conservation strategy emphasizes the study of interactions among land conservation, biological management, ex situ research and propagation and (re )introduction and habitat restoration (Hopper, 1997). Integrated conservation approaches vary according to different species with their habitats and distribution characteristics; however the basic concept remains the same.

History

Publication title

3rd International Orchid Conservation Congress

Pagination

219-222

ISSN

1409-3871

Department/School

Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA)

Publisher

Universidad de Costa Rica

Place of publication

Costa Rica

Event title

3rd International Orchid Conservation Congress

Event Venue

San Jose, Costa Rica, Lankesteriana, 7 (1-2)

Date of Event (Start Date)

2007-03-19

Date of Event (End Date)

2007-03-23

Rights statement

Copyright 2007 Jardín Botánico Lankester, Universidad de Costa Rica

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Ornamentals, natives, flowers and nursery plants

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