Plant Conservation Science and Practice: The Role of Botanic Gardens

Book Overview

Only a green world, rich in plants, can sustain us and the millions of other species with which we share this planet. But, in an era of global change, nature is on the retreat. Like the communities they form, many plant species are becoming rarer, threatened even to the point of extinction. The worldwide community of almost three thousand botanic gardens are holders of the most diverse living collections of plants and have the unique potential to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 131660246X
• ISBN13: 9781316602461
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"