Kew Bulletin - 65 (4), 2010

Contents:

Plant Conservation for the Next Decade: A Celebration of Kew’s 250th Anniversary


Plant conservation for the next decade: a celebration of Kew’s 250th anniversary

Stephen D. Hopper


A brief history of conservation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Ghillean T. Prance


Using the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation to guide conservation implementation in the UK Overseas Territories

Colin Clubbe, Martin Hamilton and Marcella Corcoran


Species-richness of the living collections of the world’s botanical gardens — patterns within continents

Ingrid Parmentier and Marco Pautasso


Policies for plant diversity conservation on a global scale: a Nitrogen driver analysis

Cristina Cruz, Teresa Dias, Pedro Pinho, Cristina Branquinho and Cristina Máguas, et al.


Ecological skills: mind the gap(s)

Jill Sutcliffe and Clare O’Reilly


The possibilities and challenges of in vitro methods for plant conservation

Valerie C. Pence


Importance of in vitro technology to future conservation programmes worldwide

Viswambharan Sarasan


Genetic Resources of Cynara spp. an AGR GEN RES European Project CYNARES

M. A. Pagnotta


A global approach to crop wild relative conservation: securing the gene pool for food and agriculture

Nigel Maxted, Shelagh Kell, Álvaro Toledo, Ehsan Dulloo and Vernon Heywood, et al.


The socio-economic importance of wild vegetable resources and their conservation: a case study from China

Xiaobo Zou, Fengqiu Huang, Limin Hao, Jiewen Zhao and Hanpin Mao, et al.


Aliens or natives: who are the ‘thugs’ in British woods?

R. H. Marrs, M. G. Le Duc, S. M. Smart, K. J. Kirby and R. G. H. Bunce, et al.


The contribution of the Millennium Seed Bank Project to ex situ plant conservation in Chile

P. León-Lobos, M. Way, M. Rosas, A. Sandoval and H. W. Pritchard


Cycad propagation by rural nurseries in Mexico as an alternative conservation strategy: 20 years on

A. P. Vovides, M. A. Pérez-Farrera and C. Iglesias


An ecosystem approach to restoration and sustainable management of dry forest in southern Peru

Oliver Q. Whaley, David G. Beresford-Jones, William Milliken, Alfonso Orellana and Anna Smyk, et al.


Ex situ conservation of some endemic and protected plant species in Georgia

Tsira Mikatadze-Pantsulaia, Tinatin Barblishvili, Clare Trivedi, David Kikodze and Manana Khutsishvili


Criteria for assessing Italian ex situ collections of threatened plants

G. Bedini and A. Carta


Partnering conservation actions. Inter situ solutions to recover threatened species in South West Western Australia

J. A. Cochrane, S. Barrett, L. Monks and R. Dillon


Conservation of native plant diversity at the Yerevan Botanic Garden, Armenia

J. A. Akopian


The evolutionary analysis of human behaviour: its potential to increase plant conservation success

Roger D. Smith


‘All netted together’: is there a need for cultural consilience in the face of extinction?

Dawn Sanders


Conservation of some rare and endangered plants from Peninsular Malaysia

L. G. Saw, L. S. L. Chua, M. Suhaida, W. S. Y. Yong and M. Hamidah


Amazon vegetation: how much don’t we know and how much does it matter?

William Milliken, Daniela Zappi, Denise Sasaki, Mike Hopkins and R. Toby Pennington