Natural Fostering in Fritillaria cirrhosa: Integrating herbal medicine production with biodiversity conservation

Biodiversity Conservation in Production Forests

Integrating agricultural landscapes with biodiversity conservation in the Mesoamerican hotspot.

CELIA A. HARVEY,∗‡‡‡ OLIVER KOMAR,† ROBIN CHAZDON,‡ BRUCE G. FERGUSON,§ BRYAN FINEGAN,∗∗ DANIEL M. GRIFFITH,†† MIGUEL MARTÍNEZ-RAMOS,‡‡ HELDA MORALES,§ RONALD NIGH,§§ LORENA SOTO-PINTO,§ MICHIEL VAN BREUGEL,∗∗∗ AND MARK WISHNIE††† ∗Department of Agriculture and Agroforestry, CATIE, Apdo 7170, Turrialba, Costa Rica †Programa de Ciencias para la Conservación, SalvaNATURA, Colonia Flor Blanca, 33 ...

The Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequences of Fritillaria ussuriensis Maxim. and Fritillaria cirrhosa D. Don, and Comparative Analysis with Other Fritillaria Species.

The genus Fritillaria belongs to the widely distributed Liliaceae. The bulbs of Fritillaria, F. ussuriensis and F. cirrhosa are valuable herbaceous medicinal ingredients. However, they are still used indiscriminately in herbal medicine. Identification and molecular phylogenic analysis of Fritillaria species are therefore required. Here, we report the complete chloroplast (CP) genome sequences o...

Integrating multiple factors into biodiversity conservation with consistency

We explore the problem of integrating some of the many factors involved in conservation planning by focusing on their effects on a common currency of conservation success, the probability of persistence. This approach has the potential to reduce many of the difficulties inherent in combining different pattern and process factors. For handling information expressed as probabilities, five area-se...

Conservation Medicine: the Changing View of Biodiversity

Meffe's (1999) editorial in Conservation Biology established a timely point of discussion on the intersection between conservation biology and medicine. As Meffe points out, conservation biology is becoming increasingly multidisciplinary. To that end, the editorial primarily considers conservation medicine, meaning health, both human and animal, considered in an ecological context. But the unde...