Perspectives on orchid conservation in botanic gardens

Orchids, one of the largest families of flowering plants, face an uncertain future through overexploitation, habitat loss and impacts of climate change. With their intricate abiotic and biotic dependencies, orchids typify the plight of global plant resources and, thus, provide ideal model species fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Swarts, N., Dixon, Kingsley
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40633