Search results for "endangered plants"

Dracocephalum ruyschiana L. propagation using in vitro technology: poster

2016

Poster on international workshop "Current issues of plant conservation", August 16-18, 2016, Lithuania, Kaunas Botanical garden of Vytautas Magnus University.

Combining ecological engineering and plant conservation on a Mediterranean islet

2012

This paper reports the results of a bioengineering intervention within the Mediterranean Basin carried out at Lampedusa Island (Strait of Sicily) on the “Spiaggia dei Conigli”, the only sand shore of all Sicilian territory where the sea turtle Caretta caretta lays its eggs every year. The erosion of the steep slope over the beach itself caused sensitive changes in the grain size of shore’s sediment and reduced the area of the beach with fine sand suitable for C. caretta oviposition. In order to reduce surface water flow and to stop erosion, several bioengineering options were adopted using only native plant species to preserve local botanical heritage and to prevent the local extinction of …

Preliminary results of EOLIFE99, a project concerning the conservation of four endangered plant species of Aeolian Archipelago (South Tyrrhenian Sea,…

2005