North American Botanic Gardens

Watson, Gary; Heywood, V. H.; Crowley, Webster R.

doi:10.1002/9780470650547.ch1

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“…A traditional botanic garden (including an arboretum) is ‘a place with an orderly, documented, labeled, collection of living plants, that is open to the general public, with collections used principally for research and education’ ( Watson et al., 1993 ). With time, this initial scope has been broadened and started to include conservation issues, such as preservation of threatened plant species ( Simmons et al., 1976 , Raven, 1981 , Heywood, 1989 , Glowka et al., 1994 , Wyse Jackson, 1997 ), although investment in creating and maintaining ex situ collections of wild species has been neglected by many countries apart from some material of crop wild relatives in crop genebanks ( Heywood, 2009 ).…”

Section: Potential Role Of Botanic Gardens In Conservationmentioning

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Conservation utility of botanic garden living collections: Setting a strategy and appropriate methodology

Volis

2017

Plant Diversity

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In the realities of the modern world, when the natural habitat is rapidly disappearing and the number of imperiled plants is constantly growing, ex situ conservation is gaining importance. To meet this challenge, botanic gardens need to revise both their strategic goals and their methodologies to achieve the new goals. This paper proposes a strategy for the management of threatened plants in living collections, which includes setting regional conservation priorities for the species, creation of genetically representative collections for the high priority species, and usage of these collections in in situ actions. In this strategy, the value of existing and future species living collections for conservation is determined by the species' conservation status and how well the accessions represent their natural genetic variation.

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Section: Potential Role Of Botanic Gardens In Conservationmentioning

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Conservation utility of botanic garden living collections: Setting a strategy and appropriate methodology

Volis

2017

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“…Botanical gardens in Missouri and New York followed this pattern with major research divisions originally named botanical research institutes. More than half of the world's 2500 major botanic gardens have been created since 1950 (Crane et al, 2009) and the most recent survey (Watson et al, 1993) showed that only 40% listed research as a component of their work. As expected, university gardens (74%) engage in research more often than non-university gardens (27%) (Sacchi, 1991).…”

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“…Comprehensive, labeled plant collections were the basis for the development of many botanic gardens (Watson et al, 1993); however, few gardens have specific research programs focused on their own living collections (Raven, 1986). Collections are the focus of nearly 50% of university garden's research (Sacchi, 1991).…”

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“…Traditional basic research especially suited for botanical gardens has included taxonomy, comparative morphology, phytochemical studies, biosystematics, evolutionary species differentiation, anatomy, embryology, physiology, genetic self-incompatibility, and plant pathology (Raven, 1986;Watson et al, 1993). Beginning in the 1970s, public or botanical gardens evolved to more beautiful display gardens with traditional collections modified to demonstrate various styles of landscape horticulture (DeVos, 1979).…”

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Public Gardens: Fulfilling the University's Research Mission

Meyer

Hokanson

Galatowitsch

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Research at botanic gardens, from medieval times to the present day, has evolved to encompass a wide range of topics. The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, part of the University of Minnesota, is an example of a diverse, successful research program within a public university garden setting. Collaboration, mission, organization, and publications are keys to a successful research program. Future research for public gardens, including putting collections to work for conservation, understanding global change, ecological genomics, restoration ecology, seed banking, and citizen science are collaborative ideas for all botanic gardens to consider. Research can strengthen the botanic garden's role by providing public value while improving ties to the university.

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“…Despite these advantages, Raven (2006) noted academic institutions are not always a ''congenial home'' for botanical gardens as they compete for funding and may not be ''accepted as an integral part of the university's function.' ' Watson et al (1993) concluded ''even when affiliated with a university, few botanic gardens are well integrated with instructional programs.'' With teaching, research, and public service at the core of academia's mission, botanic gardens, even those with historic academic affiliations, may be questioned as to their relevancy and importance in contributing to these three areas (Klatt and Pickering, 2003).…”

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Academic, Internship, and Cooperative Extension Programs at Botanic Gardens

Meyer

Michener

2013

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Fifty-five online survey responses, 15 phone interviews, and 9 site visits were conducted to collect information on academic (for credit) classes, internships, and Cooperative Extension programs at botanic gardens and arboreta in the United States. Academic programs investigated were primarily instructional credit classes. Thirty-five (64%) of the respondents indicated their garden offers an entire or partial academic class on-site. The most limiting factor in offering more academic classes was faculty time or staff limitations, as indicated by 21 participants (38%). Thirty-one (56%) gardens offer some type of internship, although only 16 (30%) were offering an academic (for credit) internship. Respondents indicated extension involvement as follows: Extension Specialists/Extension Master Gardeners (EMG) teach classes on-site, 23 (42%); EMG training was held on-site, 17 (31%); EMG answered questions on-site, 16 (29%); and 26 (47%) indicated “other” extension collaboration. Sixty-six percent reported their working relationship with extension as minimal or fair as opposed to 33% who described their extension relationship as good to excellent. Examples of successful programs in these three areas are presented, which offer models for collaborative work between botanic gardens, academia, and extension.

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North American Botanic Gardens

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Conservation utility of botanic garden living collections: Setting a strategy and appropriate methodology

Conservation utility of botanic garden living collections: Setting a strategy and appropriate methodology

Public Gardens: Fulfilling the University's Research Mission

Academic, Internship, and Cooperative Extension Programs at Botanic Gardens

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