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Principles and Practice of Plant Conservation is the first exhaustive and systematic treatment of the issues of plant conservation, other books on the subject having been collections of articles on specialized topics or of a regional nature. This book, growing out of a major sponsorship effort by two of the world's leading conservation organizations to 'assert the fundamental importance of plants in all conservation activities', provides the well-integrated coverage...
This book ought to seve as an excellent text in conservation biology. For, if any lesson emerges from this fine and important work, it is that the principles and practice of conserving plant diversity are, and must remain, seamlessly interwoven within the whole cloth - Plant Talk; For botanists involved in field conservation studies, it is highly recommended as a handbook - Economic Botany; ... instructive and inspirational ... he...
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