Essays about: "ex situ conservation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words ex situ conservation.
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1. From Plant Genetic Resource Conservation to Digital Biorepositories: A Coming Paradigm Shift in Ex-Situ Conservation?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Plant Genetic Resource Conservation has been a staple of agricultural development for the past century. Recently, several prominent papers have raised alarm surrounding the development of synthetic biology techniques and their potential to render modern practices and methods of conservation in the global genebank network obsolete. READ MORE
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2. Safeguarding a Safeguard: Assessing the Status of Global Ex-Situ Crop Conservation and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault’s Role in its Protection
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : The Svalbard Seed Vault serves as a backup against accidental loss of genetic crop diversity within the existing global conservation system. Addressing this objective, this thesis repeats the 2013 assessment of the Seed Vault’s completeness relative to the global conservation system as performed by Westengen et al (2013, 1). READ MORE
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3. Urialernas hemliga nattliv : en beteendestudie på natten
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and HealthAbstract : A large number of wild species on our globe are currently endangered or on the verge of extinction, illegal hunting of animals and changes in their environment are major contributors. There are currently 134 425 species in danger of extinction and 37 480 species on the verge of extinction. READ MORE
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4. Play behaviour and maternal relationship between ewe and lambs in Urial sheep (Ovis vignei bochariensis)
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and HealthAbstract : Ex situ conservation is done to alleviate the risk of threatened species going extinct and one major conservation aim is increasing the population size. One place working with ex situ conservation is the zoo Nordens Ark in Sweden, and one of their target species is Urials (Ovis vignei bochariensis). READ MORE
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5. Bevarande av den akut hotade ormbunken, Skuggbräken, Polystichum braunii : habitat, hot och åtgärder
University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and SocietyAbstract : Skuggbräken är en akut hotad ormbunke med en enda känd lokal på Söderåsens Nationalpark, i Skåne. Detta är ett förarbete för att kunna utveckla en bevarandeplan för arten och kunna bevara populationen i odling, ex situ. READ MORE