Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use (Cabi Publishing) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845930991 ISBN 13: 9781845930998

Verlag: CABI Publishing, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Through an examination of the national, regional and global context of CWR, these authoritative studies present methodologies and case studies that review and provide recommendations for global conservation and use.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Professor / consultant in Plant Genetic Conservation.Research Interests: Plant conservation and broader biodiversity conservation and use, with specific expertise in: field conservation, taxonomy, ecogeography, GIS, population sampling, population management, reserve management, on-farm conservation, gene flow and genetic diversity studies of various plant groups. Work experience throughout Africa, the Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia and Europe.

Shelagh Kell has been working internationally in the field of plant genetic resources conservation and sustainable use for more than 20 years. She is currently Project Manager and Research Fellow at the School of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham (UoB), UK; Editor-in-Chief, Plant Genetic Resources: Characterization and Utilization, published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) on behalf of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), UK; and Chair of the Genetic Resources section of the European Association for Research on Plant Breeding (EUCARPIA). She has undertaken previous consultancies for the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Bioversity International; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). She has worked both within and outside Europe, including missions to China, the Indian Ocean, the Fertile Crescent, Mesoamerica and South America. She has also been an Author, Tutor, Research Supervisor and Examiner for the University of London External Programme since 2001. She is co-editor of two published volumes, lead and co-author of a range of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and other publications, and is founder and co-editor of the newsletter, Crop wild relative.

Professor at Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain. Teaches Evolutionary Genetics in the degree of Biology and Genetic Recovery of Populations at Masters level. Research interests include: Adaptive evolution to climate change in Mediterranean high mountains; Conservation biology of Mediterranean plant; Conservation of wild relatives of European crop; and Population biology (demographic dynamics, reproductive biology, spatial and genetic structure, plant-animal interaction).

Dr Dulloo is a Team Leader for a Bioversity International Initiative on Effective Genetic Resources Conservation and Use. Dr Dulloo is also co-Leader of the Genetic Diversity Cluster in the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas, as well as co-Chair of the Crop Wild Relative Specialist Group. He has been a Senior Policy Officer at the FAO. He was the lead author of the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report and, more recently, lead author of Chapter 2.2 Status and Trends - Nature in the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Report. He won the World Bank 2009 Development Marketplace Award on Climate Adaptation. Dr Dulloo has published widely on biodiversity and the conservation of genetic resources.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CABI Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845930991
• ISBN 13: 9781845930998
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 682
• Herausgeber: Maxted N., Ford-lloyd B., Kell S. P., Irinodo J. M., Dulloo E.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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