Plant Conservation and Biodiversity

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VII

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2. Floristic and structural changes related to opportunistic soil tilling and pasture planting in grassland communities of the Flooding Pampa

   • C. M. Ghersa, S. B. Perelman, S. E. Burkart, R. J. C. León

   Pages 1-18

3. Decreased frugivory and seed germination rate do not reduce seedling recruitment rates of Aristotelia chilensis in a fragmented forest

   • Carlos E. Valdivia, Javier A. Simonetti

   Pages 19-28

4. Vascular plant diversity and climate change in the alpine zone of the Lefka Ori, Crete

   • G. Kazakis, D. Ghosn, I. N. Vogiatzakis, V. P. Papanastasis

   Pages 29-41

5. RAPD variation among North Vietnamese Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) Kuntze ex Merr. accessions

   • Bettina Heider, Meike S. Andersson, Rainer Schultze-Kraft

   Pages 43-57

6. Non-timber forest product harvesting in alien-dominated forests: effects of frond-harvest and rainfall on the demography of two native Hawaiian ferns

   • Tamara Ticktin, Hō‘ala Fraiola, A. Nāmaka Whitehead

   Pages 59-77

7. Tequila and other Agave spirits from west-central Mexico: current germplasm diversity, conservation and origin

   • Patricia Colunga-GarcíaMarín, Daniel Zizumbo-Villarreal

   Pages 79-93

8. Spatial patterns of dicot diversity in Argentina

   • Alejandra Juárez, Pablo Ortega-Baes, Silvia Sühring, Walter Martin, Guadalupe Galíndez

   Pages 95-103

9. Unsustainable collection and unfair trade? Uncovering and assessing assumptions regarding Central Himalayan medicinal plant conservation

   • Helle Overgaard Larsen, Carsten Smith Olsen

   Pages 105-123

10. Woody plant species richness in the Turvo State park, a large remnant of deciduous Atlantic forest, Brazil

    • Ademir R. Ruschel, Rubens O. Nodari, Bruno M. Moerschbacher

    Pages 125-140

11. Genetic diversity assessment in Somali sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) accessions using microsatellite markers

    • Marco Manzelli, Luca Pileri, Nadia Lacerenza, Stefano Benedettelli, Vincenzo Vecchio

    Pages 141-156

12. Demand for rubber is causing the loss of high diversity rain forest in SW China

    • Hongmei Li, T. Mitchell Aide, Youxin Ma, Wenjun Liu, Min Cao

    Pages 157-171

13. Comparing conservation priorities for useful plants among botanists and Tibetan doctors

    • Wayne Law, Jan Salick

    Pages 173-185

14. Environmental heterogeneity and disturbance by humans control much of the tree species diversity of Atlantic montane forest fragments in SE Brazil

    • José Aldo A. Pereira, Ary T. Oliveira-Filho, José P. Lemos-Filho

    Pages 187-210

15. Correspondence between scientific and traditional ecological knowledge: rain forest classification by the non-indigenous ribereños in Peruvian Amazonia

    • K. J. Halme, R. E. Bodmer

    Pages 211-227

16. Species richness, endemism and conservation of Mexican gymnosperms

    • Raúl Contreras-Medina, Isolda Luna-Vega

    Pages 229-247

17. Impacts of El Niño related drought and forest fires on sun bear fruit resources in lowland dipterocarp forest of East Borneo

    • G. M. Fredriksson, L. S. Danielsen, J. E. Swenson

    Pages 249-264

18. Pollinator shift and reproductive performance of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau endemic and endangered Swertia przewalskii (Gentianaceae)

    • Yuan-Wen Duan, Jian-Quan Liu

    Pages 265-276

19. An analysis of altitudinal behavior of tree species in Subansiri district, Eastern Himalaya

    • Mukunda Dev Behera, Satya Prakash Singh Kushwaha

    Pages 277-291

20. Distribution, diversity and environmental adaptation of highland papayas (Vasconcellea spp.) in tropical and subtropical America

    • X. Scheldeman, L. Willemen, G. Coppens d’Eeckenbrugge, E. Romeijn-Peeters, M. T. Restrepo, J. Romero Motoche et al.

    Pages 293-310

Non-timber forest products (NTFP) hold economic and cultural signi?cance for millions of people across the globe. For instance, hundreds of millions of rural peoples currently derive a signi?cant portion of both their subsistence needs and cash income from gathered plant and animal products (Iqbal 1993; Vedeld et al. 2004). Thousands of wild NTFP are also harvested for local use in other cultural and religious activities, such as rituals, ceremonies and dances (e. g. FAO 1991). A growing body of literature has illustrated that NTFP harvest can have e- logical consequences at multiple ecological scales, and that demographic responses to harvest are heavily in?uenced by harvesting practices (see review by Ticktin 2004). However, although many NTFP are harvested from disturbed habitats and subject to multiple pressures (Cunningham 2001), few quantitative studies have addressed this issue. For example, a small number of studies have assessed the demographic effects of NTFP management practices in the context of browsing or grazing (Endress et al. 2004b; Ghimire et al. 2005), or human-induced ?re (Ticktin 2005). Nonetheless, the demographic consequences of NTFP harvest and mana- ment in the context of other disturbance factors, such as alien invasive species, have not been addressed to date.

• Ecology
• Gentianaceae
• Woody plant
• biodiversity
• classification
• ecosystem
• ecosystem processes
• environment
• forest
• fruit
• species diversity
• woody species
• Forestry Management

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