Premise of research. Conservation imperiled plant species can benefit from ex situ collections, including the living collections botanic gardens and arboreta. Such should strive to capture maintain genetic diversity found in remaining wild populations. Ex may also harbor variability that has been lost Quercus hinckleyi is an extremely rare (International Union for Nature Natural Resources [IUCN...

Societal Impact Statement Trees are essential to life on earth—playing important economic, ecological and cultural roles. However, the world is facing a biodiversity crisis, be able effectively conserve tree species with limited funds, we need know which threatened. The Global Tree Assessment has addressed this gap in knowledge through accelerating production of International Union for Conserva...

BACKGROUND In 1957, Tunisia introduced 117 species of Eucalyptus; they have been used as fire wood, for the production of mine wood and to fight erosion. Actually, Eucalyptus essential oil is traditionally used to treat respiratory tract disorders such as pharyngitis, bronchitis, and sinusitis. A few investigations were reported on the biological activities of Eucalyptus oils worldwide. In Tuni...

Introduction Biodiversity conservation has traditionally been seen as problem of protecting genetic diversity. It has had two dimensions: ex situ germ plasm preservation in zoos, aquaria and arboreta (and by extension, seed banks, tissue cultures and genomic libraries), and in situ species preservation in refugia, especially in megadiversity areas involving high levels of endemism. Increasingly...

DiSSCo Flanders aims at developing a standardised natural science collections management infrastructure, ensuring proper long-term conservation, and future re-usage of the collections. Meise Botanic Garden coordinates Flemish consortium. This four-year project, funded by FWO (Research Foundation – Flanders), started in January 2021. The consortium brings together both more classical ‘museum’ (M...

This poster presents findings from analyses of student comic books that documented a field trip to an art, science, and technology museum. Findings include that comics allowed students to demonstrate via words and images more than acquired content knowledge, including understanding about diverse aspects of the trip like affect and social situations (average alpha = .86) and testify to the relia...