From strategy to action – the first steps in the ESCAPE project

Marko-Tapio Hyvärinen; Sannamaija Laaka-Lindberg; Maria Helena Hällfors; Leif Edvard Schulman

From strategy to action – the first steps in the ESCAPE project

Marko-Tapio Hyvärinen, Sannamaija Laaka-Lindberg, Maria Helena Hällfors, Leif Edvard Schulman

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Abstract

The Finnish ex-situ conservation strategy for plants includes five targets: to (i) secure the extant collections; (ii) increase the number of conserved taxa; (iii) develop ex-situ conservation for northern species; (iv) incorporate ex-situ conservation into reintroduction programmes, and (v) increase the use of collections in education and public outreach. To achieve these targets a five-year EU Life+ funded project was launched in autumn 2012. Here we present the first steps of the project: establishing a national seed bank, ensuring the storage of micro-propagated tissues in a cryogenic unit, preparing assisted migration trials based on ex-situ material, and initializing ex-situ conservation of bryophytes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Botanical Gardens Conservation International : Proceedings of the Fifth Global Botanic Gardens Congress
Number of pages	4
Place of Publication	Dunedin, New Zealand
Publication date	23 Apr 2015
Pages	1-4
Publication status	Published - 23 Apr 2015
MoE publication type	D3 Professional conference proceedings
Event	Global Botanic Gardens Congress - Dunedin, New Zealand Duration: 20 Oct 2013 → 25 Oct 2013 Conference number: 5 BGCI

Fields of Science

1183 Plant biology, microbiology, virology
Assisted migration
botanic garden
conservation strategy
cryogenic storage
endangered taxa
ex-situ conservation
micro-propagation
seed bank

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https://www.bgci.org/resources/3294/

LUOMUS The Finnish Museum of Natural History
Finnish Museum of Natural History
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The Finnish Biodiversity Information Centre (LS-RIA/ HUBCRI)
Finnish Museum of Natural History
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Hyvärinen, M-T , Laaka-Lindberg, S, Hällfors, MH & Schulman, LE 2015, From strategy to action – the first steps in the ESCAPE project. in Botanical Gardens Conservation International: Proceedings of the Fifth Global Botanic Gardens Congress. Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 1-4, Global Botanic Gardens Congress, Dunedin, New Zealand, 20/10/2013. <https://www.bgci.org/resources/3294/>

From strategy to action – the first steps in the ESCAPE project. / Hyvärinen, Marko-Tapio ; Laaka-Lindberg, Sannamaija; Hällfors, Maria Helena et al.
Botanical Gardens Conservation International: Proceedings of the Fifth Global Botanic Gardens Congress. Dunedin, New Zealand, 2015. p. 1-4.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Professional

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From strategy to action – the first steps in the ESCAPE project

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