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The Kiss (Paperback)
Janice Gold
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Seed (Paperback)
Janice Gould
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Extinction by design is based on the author's doctoral research at
the University of Oxford (Herbarium-based trait studies on plant
extinction risk in the Flora Zambesiaca region, south-central
Africa). For it, field visits to herbaria and other research
institutions took place over several years in Botswana, Malawi,
Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The book is a sterling
contribution as it is the first to offer insights into the
relationship between intrinsic species design and vulnerability to
extinction in Africa. The work draws on frontiers of the IUCN's Red
Data List concept. New terms to ecology, like extinction signatures
and persistence potential, are introduced. An annotated list of
over 1,100 country endemics that were evaluated from woodlands,
forests and grasslands, is provided. The series of studies in this
book shows that life- history trait data, derived from taxonomic
sources, can increase our understanding of rare and threatened
plant biodiversity in data-poor countries. The Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew (Millennium Seed Bank Project and the Bentham-Moxon
Trust), and the University of Oxford funded the research.
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