Published January 25, 2021 | Version v1
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ConservePlants: An integrated approach to conservation of threatened plants for the 21st Century

Authors/Creators

  • 1. University of Primorska, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, Koper, Slovenia
  • 2. University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
  • 3. University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
  • 4. Iğdır University, Iğdır, Turkey
  • 5. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 6. Centre for the Conservation of Biodiversity (CCB), Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy|Sardinian Germplasm Bank (BG-SAR), Cagliari, Italy
  • 7. Botanical Institute of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • 8. University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 9. Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Rishon LeZion, Israel
  • 10. University of Malta, Valletta, Malta
  • 11. Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Quedlinburg, Germany
  • 12. Faculty of Science, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 13. University Of Malta, Valletta, Malta
  • 14. Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany
  • 15. Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", Belgrade, Serbia
  • 16. Botanical Society of Portugal, Alverca do Ribatejo, Portugal
  • 17. Botanical garden, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • 18. University of Coimbra, Centre for Fucntional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal
  • 19. Musée national d'histoire naturelle, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • 20. Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Spain
  • 21. Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
  • 22. Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry,Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 23. University of Tirana, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Tirana, Albania
  • 24. Environmental Law Center, Podgorica, Montenegro
  • 25. Environmental Law Center, Podgorica, Montenegro|Natural History Museum of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
  • 26. Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the city of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 27. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Oslo, Norway
  • 28. Department of Life and Environmental Sciences (DISVA), University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
  • 29. Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
  • 30. Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • 31. Institute of Genetics, Physiology and Plant Protection, Chisinau, Moldova
  • 32. Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
  • 33. Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium
  • 34. Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Apelsvoll, Norway
  • 35. Centre for Ecological Research, Insitute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary
  • 36. Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland
  • 37. Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil HSR, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
  • 38. University of Sarajevo - Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (INGEB), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 39. University of Vienna, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research and Core Facility Botanical Garden, Vienna, Austria
  • 40. Forest Research Institute, Raszyn, Poland
  • 41. Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • 42. Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Department of Ecology and Biogeography, Toruń, Poland
  • 43. Czech Union for nature Conservation, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 44. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna; Institute for Integrative Nature Conservation Research, Vienna, Austria
  • 45. Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
  • 46. Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden Jevremovac - University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 47. University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 48. Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 49. Faculty of Biology, Riga, Latvia
  • 50. Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute of Forestry, Girionys, Kaunas r., Lithuania
  • 51. CESCO, MNHN-CNRS-Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
  • 52. Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland
  • 53. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, II 1.2 Plant Conservation, Bonn, Germany
  • 54. Faculty of Forestry, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 55. University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
  • 56. University of Novi Sad, Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 57. Bioversity International, Heverlee, Belgium
  • 58. Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
  • 59. Ukrainian Research Institute of Mountain Forestry, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
  • 60. ČSOP - Czech Union for Nature Consrvation, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 61. Center of Flora and Fauna, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
  • 62. University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece
  • 63. Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 64. Global Diversity Foundation, Canterbury, United Kingdom
  • 65. Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • 66. University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
  • 67. University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
  • 68. Plant Science and Biodiversity Center SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 69. University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
  • 70. Duzce University, Duzce, Turkey
  • 71. Botanical Garden of the University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • 72. Natural History Museum of Denmark, København, Denmark
  • 73. Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmond, United Kingdom
  • 74. Institute of Botany, Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 75. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • 76. University of East Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 77. Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 78. Natural History Museum Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
  • 79. The public enterprise Makedonski sumi, head office-Skopje Republic of Macedonia, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
  • 80. Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Gardabaer, Iceland
  • 81. Forest Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 82. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  • 83. Wageningen Universtiy and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
  • 84. Agricultural Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
  • 85. Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
  • 86. Division of Species Protection, Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic
  • 87. ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 88. Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
  • 89. Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, Split, Croatia
  • 90. Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Even though plants represent an essential part of our lives offering exploitational, supporting and cultural services, we know very little about the biology of the rarest and most threatened plant species, and even less about their conservation status. Rapid changes in the environment and climate, today more pronounced than ever, affect their fitness and distribution causing rapid species declines, sometimes even before they had been discovered. Despite the high goals set by conservationists to protect native plants from further degradation and extinction, the initiatives for the conservation of threatened species in Europe are scattered and have not yielded the desired results. The main aim of this Action is to improve plant conservation in Europe through the establishment of a network of scientists and other stakeholders who deal with different aspects of plant conservation, from plant taxonomy, ecology, conservation genetics, conservation physiology and reproductive biology to protected area's managers, not forgetting social scientists, who are crucial when dealing with the general public.

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