While we believe that there is no
substitute for in situ ecosystem protection for conserving rare plant
species, increasingly reintroductions have been suggested by regulating
agencies and conservation professionals as solutions to rare plant
endangerment. Building upon our previous publication Restoring
Diversity, we seek to assess current knowledge about the success
of reintroductions and to determine whether there are lessons to be
learned and general patterns that arise from reintroductions done
in the past 20 years. To gain a broad sample of reintroduction circumstances,
we invite you to participate in this survey.
Register Your Project
We seek data on plants
with diverse life histories reintroduced into diverse locations and
under a variety of circumstances. Our goal is to generate a meaningful
review of reintroductions, their successes and failures, promises and
deliveries. It is our intention that understanding these patterns can
contribute to plant conservation efforts around the world.
Please note that we will not publish any sensitive
information about endangered or threatened plant species. For example,
location information should be detailed enough so that we can know the
general region where a trial was done, but we will not publish this location
information.
Your participation is voluntary. We are not requesting information that
will supplant any other publication you plan for your reintroduction
trial. In fact, we encourage you to publish your detailed reintroduction
information and we will acknowledge your input into the database. We
invite collaborations and co-authorship on this review. If you are interested
in collaborating, please indicate this by checking the box in the survey.
If you need a User Name and Password, please contact cpc@mobot.org