Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society - 166 (3), 2011

Contents:

Editorial

    Science and development of government policy post-Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: lessons for the future (pages 213–216)

    MARK W. CHASE, NATASHA S. ALI, ALAN J. PATON, EIMEAR NIC LUGHADHA and MICHAEL F. FAY


Original Articles


    Science and policy: valuing framing, language and listening (pages 217–226)

    STEPHEN FORBES

   
    The context and development of a global framework for plant conservation (pages 227–232)

    PETER WYSE JACKSON and SUZANNE SHARROCK

   
    What more can plant scientists do to help save the green stuff? (pages 233–239)

    JEFFREY A. MCNEELY

    
    SMART or CUTE – what makes a good target? (pages 240–249)

    PETER BRIDGEWATER

  
    The irresistible target meets the unachievable objective: what have 8 years of GSPC implementation taught us about target setting and achievable objectives? (pages 250–260)

    ALAN PATON and EIMEAR NIC LUGHADHA

   
    How to embed an international policy into the political context of the UK and Europe with reference to the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (pages 261–266)

    ELIZABETH A. RADFORD

    
    Strengthening the scientific contribution of botanic gardens to the second phase of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (pages 267–281)

    STEPHEN BLACKMORE, MARY GIBBY and DAVID RAE

   
    Plant diversity and conservation in China: planning a strategic bioresource for a sustainable future (pages 282–300)

    HONGWEN HUANG

  
    Informing and influencing the interface between biodiversity science and biodiversity policy in South Africa (pages 301–309)

    NEIL R. CROUCH and GIDEON F. SMITH

    
    How has Government policy post-Global Strategy for Plant Conservation impacted on science? The Ethiopian perspective (pages 310–325)

    SEBSEBE DEMISSEW

    
    Definition and insertion of the GSPC in the political context of Mexico (pages 326–330)

    PATRICIA DÁVILA, HESIQUIO BENÍTEZ, YOLANDA BARRIOS, ANDREA CRUZ-ANGÓN and NORMA ÁLVAREZ-GIRARD

   
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Alpine Botany (Botanica Helvetica) - 121 (2), 2011

Contents:


A definition of mountains and their bioclimatic belts for global comparisons of biodiversity data

Christian Körner, Jens Paulsen and Eva M. Spehn

  
Factors influencing altitudinal patterns of C3 plant foliar carbon isotope composition of grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Yongchun Zhou, Jiangwen Fan, Wenyan Zhang, Warwick Harris and Huaping Zhong, et al.

  
Adaptation of Poa alpina to altitude and land use in the Swiss Alps

Markus Fischer, Anne Weyand, Katrin Rudmann-Maurer and Jürg Stöcklin

  
Fine root traits in adult trees of evergreen and deciduous taxa from low and high elevation in the Alps

Pilar Alvarez-Uria and Christian Körner


Plant–plant spatial interactions in the dry Puna (southern Peruvian Andes)

Andrea Catorci, Sabrina Cesaretti, Jose Luis Velasquez and Horacio Zeballos

  
No evidence for a role of competitive capabilities of adults in causing habitat segregation of diploid and hexaploid Senecio carniolicus (Asteracaeae)

Karl Hülber, Andreas Berger, Christian Gilli, Markus Hofbauer and Monika Patek, et al.

 
Allometric equations for biomass assessment of subalpine dwarf shrubs

Tasneem M. Elzein, Olivier Blarquez, Olivier Gauthier and Christopher Carcaillet
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