Botanic gardens
Subtitle: modern-day arks
By: Sara Oldfield
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780262015165
Subjects: Plant conservation; Botanical gardens
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 232) and index.
Table of contents: title: The plant extinction crisis; title: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; title: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; title: France: the conservatoires botaniques; title: Berlin-Dahlem Botanic Garden; title: Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanic Garden, Istanbul; title: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Florida; title: Chicago Botanic Garden; title: National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii; title: UNAM Botanic Garden, Mexico; title: Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden; title: South China Botanic Garden; title: The Kebun Raya Network, Indonesia; title: Botanic gardens in Uganda; title: Madagascar: international collaborations; title: SANBI, South Africa; title: Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Australia; title: Planning for the future.