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- Title
Determining the management requirements of threatened plant species.
- Authors
Williams, Paul R.
- Abstract
The article presents a study which examined the management requirements of threatened plant species in Queensland. Determining a species' legal status is essential for identifying those in real danger of becoming extinct in the wild die to very limited distributions and declining populations. The World Conservation Union criteria for determining the status of threatened species are being adopted in Australia and include details on distribution, abundance and evidence of population declines. The number and severity of threats differed considerably between species. The species with the highest threat score of 27 was Phatus tancarvilleae, a ground orchid of swamps and wet woodlands. The most apparent finding from this study was the low level of ecological information currently available for rare plants in north Queensland.
- Subjects
QUEENSLAND; AUSTRALIA; ENDANGERED plants; PLANT species; RARE plants; PLANT classification; SPECIES
- Publication
Ecological Management & Restoration, 2006, Vol 7, Issue 2, p148
- ISSN
1442-7001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1442-8903.2006.280_5.x