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Created: Mar 23, 2008
Updated: Sep 22, 2009
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Endangered Plant Species Protection
Endangered Plant Species ProtectionEndangered plant species are those plant species whose ability to survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities, such that the size of the population is so low that the species is at risk of extinction. The World Conservation Union lists 34,000 plants as threatened with extinction. Although hard to calculate, about 400 plant species appear to have gone extinct from human activities. Plants become endangered predominantly through habitat loss and degradation and competition with exotic species. Climate change may accelerate these losses. |
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Keywords danger of extinction, conservation, biodiversity, flora, plants, vascular plants, climate change, endemic, plant biodiversity, invasive species, land conversion, Endangered Species Act, World Conservation Union Red List of Threatened Plants |
