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Conservation of Plant Species

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Maintenance; Protection; Sustainable management of plant species

Definition

Conservation of plant species is a set of activities and strategies that are being implemented with the aim of ensuring the continued existence, evolution and availability of plant species for present and future generations.

Plant conservation is a broad group of activities which aim to prevent plants from becoming extinct. It includes the direct conservation of wild populations, collections of plants with gardens, education programs, invasive species control, recovery and restoration work, research programms, training.

Conservation of plant species and biological processesis an active management of populations to ensure the survival of the maximum diversity of plant species and the maintenance of genetic variability within species. The term also includes the concept of sustainable resource use so that the environment may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to current generations while maintaining...

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  1. Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Mirjana Šijačić-Nikolić

  2. Environment and Sustainable Development, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia

    Jelena Milovanović

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  1. Mirjana Šijačić-Nikolić
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Correspondence to Mirjana Šijačić-Nikolić .

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  1. FTZ-ALS, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences FTZ-ALS, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Ctr Neurosci & Cell Biology, 1 Floor, Univ Coimbra, Edf Fac Medicina, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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Šijačić-Nikolić, M., Milovanović, J. (2019). Conservation of Plant Species. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Life on Land. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71065-5_46-1

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