The role of botanical gardens in scientific research, conservation, and citizen science.

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	The role of botanical gardens in scientific research, conservation, and citizen science.
	Chen, Gao; Sun, Weibang
	2018
发表期刊	Plant diversity
ISSN	2468-2659
卷号	40 期号:4 页码:181-188
摘要	Plant diversity is currently being lost at an unprecedented rate, resulting in an associated decrease in ecosystem services. About a third of the world's vascular plant species face the threat of extinction due to a variety of devastating activities, including, over-harvesting and over exploitation, destructive agricultural and forestry practices, urbanization, environmental pollution, land-use changes, exotic invasive species, global climate change, and more. We therefore need to increase our efforts to develop integrative conservation approaches for plant species conservation. Botanical gardens devote their resources to the study and conservation of plants, as well as making the world's plant species diversity known to the public. These gardens also play a central role in meeting human needs and providing well-being. In this minireview, a framework for the integrated missions of botanical gardens, including scientific research, in/ex situ conservation, plant resource utilization, and citizen science are cataloged. By reviewing the history of the development of Kunming Botanical Garden, we illustrate successful species conservation approaches (among others, projects involving Camellia, Rhododendron, Magnolia, Begonia, Allium, Nepenthes, medicinal plants, ornamental plants, and Plant Species with Extreme Small Populations), as well as citizen science, and scientific research at Kunming Botanical Garden over the past 80 years. We emphasize that Kunming Botanical Garden focuses largely on the ex situ conservation of plants from Southwest China, especially those endangered, endemic, and economically important plant species native to the Yunnan Plateau and the southern Hengduan Mountains. We also discuss the future challenges and responsibilities of botanical gardens in a changing world, including: the negative effects of outbreeding and/or inbreeding depression; promoting awareness, study, and conservation of plant species diversity; accelerating global access to information about plant diversity; increasing capacity building and training activities. We hope this minireview can promote understanding of the role of botanical gardens.
语种	英语
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/64794
专题	中国科学院昆明植物研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Gao,Sun, Weibang. The role of botanical gardens in scientific research, conservation, and citizen science.[J]. Plant diversity,2018,40(4):181-188.
APA	Chen, Gao,&Sun, Weibang.(2018).The role of botanical gardens in scientific research, conservation, and citizen science..Plant diversity,40(4),181-188.
MLA	Chen, Gao,et al."The role of botanical gardens in scientific research, conservation, and citizen science.".Plant diversity 40.4(2018):181-188.