The effectiveness of botanic garden collections in supporting plant conservation: a European case study

By M. Maunder, S. Higgens, A. Culham. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2004

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Assessing the risks of plant invasions arising from collections in tropical botanical gardens (2008, background): “…varieties (Dosman and Del Tredici 2003; Anderson et al. 2006), the conservation of endangered or economically valuable species, public education and recreation (Maunder 1994; Muller 1994; Maunder et al. 2001; Waylen 2006) and in many cases they are of historical as well as cultural signiWcance.”
Quasi in situ: a bridge between ex situ and in situ conservation of plants (2010, background): “…the last two decades in a number of ex situ facilities either directly contributing to the conservation of endangered plant species or specifically managed for conservation purposes (Gomez-Campo 1985; Maunder et al. 2001; Wyse Jackson 2001; Smith and Hawtin 2003; Cohrane 2004; Havens et al. 2006).”
Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants: problems, progress, and prospects (2016, background): “Botanic gardens can play a further role in medicinal plant conservation through the development of propagation and cultivation protocols, as well as undertaking programs of domestication and variety breeding [49].”