The Conservation of Protected Plant Species: From Theory to Practice
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 94
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant invasions; plant ecology; plant taxonomy; species conservation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The conservation of legally protected plant species is an integral part of global environmental and biodiversity protection. Despite many efforts, plant species or individual populations are declining for a complex array of interrelated reasons: anthropogenic pressures, habitat and ecosystem degradation, climate change, biological invasions, changes in traditional agricultural practices and other human economic activities. It is therefore essential to comprehensively assess the causes of plant species decline and the short- and long-term processes occurring in their populations and habitats. Such knowledge is essential to identify the best methods and most effective conservation measures for protected plant species.
For this Special Issue, we invite the submission of articles dealing with different aspects of the study of protected plant species:
- Conservation, management and restoration of the habitats of protected plant species.
- Spatial and temporal changes in populations of protected plant species.
- Population demographic structure and its relationship to environmental conditions.
- Traits of protected plant species and their effect on population stability.
- Mutualistic, symbiotic and trophic relationships of protected plant species with other organisms.
- Effect of climate change on population trends and stability.
- Impact of anthropogenic factors on populations of protected plant species.
- Effect of invasive organisms on populations of protected plant species.
- Genetic diversity in populations and its effect on population stability.
- Policy and best practice for the conservation of protected plant species.
Dr. Zigmantas Gudžinskas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biodiversity conservation
- climate change
- habitats
- invasive species
- legally protected plant species
- management
- plant traits
- populations
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