Restoring Diversity: Strategies for Reintroduction of Endangered Plants
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Publication Date: June 1996
Publisher: Island Press
Binding: Trade Paper
Topics: PLANTS, PROTECTION OF; RESTORATION ECOLOGY
Description:
In April, 1993, a conference of academic biologists, agency staff members, activists. and other experts critically explored the value of ecological restoration as a conservation strategy. Restoring Diversity examines and expands on the issues set forth at that gathering, including strategy, case studies, the biology of restoration and the use of mitigation in rare plant conservation.
About the Author
Donald A. Falk is executive director of the Society for Ecological Restoration.
Constance I. Millar is research geneticist/conservation biologist with the Institute of Forest Genetics, USDA Forest Service in Albany, California.
Margaret Olwell is endangered species coordinator for the National Park Service in Washington, D.C.
Reed F. Noss is a consultant in conservation biology, past editor of the journal "Conservation Biology", and president of the Society for Conservation Biology (1999-2001). He is the author of "The Redwood Forest" (Island Press, 2000), "The Science of Conservation Planning" (Island Press, 1997) and "Saving Nature's Legacy" (Island Press, 1994) and "Large Mammal Restoration" (Island Press, 2001).
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