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Conservation of threatened relict trees through living ex situ collections: lessons from the global survey of the genus Zelkova (Ulmaceae)

Kozlowski, Gregor ; Gibbs, Douglas ; Huan, Fan ; Frey, David ; Gratzfeld, Joachim

In: Biodiversity and Conservation, 2012, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 671-685

Conservation of threatened relict trees through living ex situ collections : lessons from the global survey of the genus Zelkova (Ulmaceae)

Kozlowski, Gregor ; Gibbs, Douglas ; Huan, Fan ; Frey, David ; Gratzfeld, Joachim

In: Biodiversity and Conservation, 2012, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 671-685

Maintaining living ex situ collections is one of the key conservation methods in botanic gardens worldwide. Despite of the existence of many other conservation approaches used nowadays, it offers for many endangered plants an important insurance policy for the future, especially for rare and threatened relict trees. The aim of this research was to investigate the global extent of living ex situ...