Using private gardens to conserve Minuartia smejkalii a novel approach for ex situ conservation

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/25:10500612

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111345" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111345</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111345" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111345</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Using private gardens to conserve Minuartia smejkalii a novel approach for ex situ conservation

Original language description

We currently observe a tremendous loss of species due to the ongoing global change. Ex situ conservation provides an important tool to counteract species losses and thus helps to maintain biodiversity. Here, we present a setup which involves 19 private gardens and 2 botanical gardens as sites of ex situ conservation using Minuartia smejkalii, an endangered serpentinophyte endemic to Czechia as a case study. To create suitable habitats in the gardens, artificial serpentine mounds were built, combining soil from natural sites with serpentine rocks and gravel from nearby quarries. We investigated how the plants performed at ex situ conservation sites compared with plants growing in natural habitats and how well these artificial sites represented the conditions at the natural sites. We assessed plant performance using plant functional traits including tuft diameter, chlorophyll fluorescence, chlorophyll content, and specific leaf area (SLA). We found that even though abiotic factors of the ex situ conservation sites (temperature, soil properties and shading) did not entirely match the natural conditions and plant mortality was higher and performance lower under ex situ conditions, we managed to create many independent M. smejkalii populations and increase its variability in plant functional traits, which might facilitate its survival. Using private gardens as ex situ conservation sites also helped to raise awareness on the conservation of M. smejkalii through engagement of the local community and the gardeners and thus, this proves to be a useful and powerful technique in plant conservation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biological Conservation

ISSN

0006-3207

e-ISSN

1873-2917

Volume of the periodical

310

Issue of the periodical within the volume

October

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

111345

UT code for WoS article

001534852300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105009992582