Professional paper
Meeting Target Eight - ex situ conservation of Croatian threatened and statutorily protected plant species in the Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Dubravka Sandev
orcid.org/0000-0002-2813-2043
; Botanical Garden, Division of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Marulićev trg 9a, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Darko Mihelj
; Botanical Garden, Division of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Marulićev trg 9a, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Sanja Kovačić
; Botanical Garden, Division of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Marulićev trg 9a, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
According to „Target 8” of Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC, 2011-2020), at least 75% of threatened plant species must be preserved in ex situ garden-collections, preferably in the countries of their origin, until 2020. The aim of the present study was to examine the list of Croatian threatened and statutorily protected plant species in ex situ conservation of the Botanical Garden (Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb). Out of 668 indigenous taxa of the Garden’s native-plant collections, we found 208 strictly protected and protected species, which is 12.7% of all statutorily protected taxa in Croatia. In the categories RE, CR, EN and VU there are 31 species, constituting 13.1% of threatened taxa in Croatia in those categories. In all categories, we found 80 taxa listed in the Red Book of Vascular flora of Croatia, 24 taxa are identified in the European Red List of Vascular Plants, while 12 taxa are found in the IUCN-Red List of Threatened Species in the World. Serious efforts are yet to be made in ex situ conservation of Croatian threatened species, in order to achieve the goals of „Target 8”.
Keywords
Global Strategy for Plant Conservation; „Target 8”; ex situ; plant collections; Zagreb Botanical Garden
Hrčak ID:
112716
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Publication date:
31.12.2013.
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