[PCA] Priority areas for plant conservation in the conterminous US?

Wed Jan 8 12:17:05 CST 2020

The recent New Mexico Rare Plant Conservation Strategy identifies several “Important Plant Areas” – including an interactive map.

http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/SFD/ForestMgt/NewMexicoRarePlantConservationStategy.html

From: native-plants [mailto:native-plants-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org] On Behalf Of bmacbryde at netscape.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 1:25 PM
To: Bruce_Young at natureserve.org; native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org
Subject: Re: [PCA] Priority areas for plant conservation in the conterminous US?

Several useful older references are:

MacBryde, B. 1979. Plant conservation in North America: Developing structure. Pp. 105-109 in I. Hedberg (ed.), Systematic Botany, Plant Utilization 

    and Biosphere Conservation. Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm, Sweden. 159 pp.

Maina, S.L., and J. Villa-Lobos. 1997. Regional overview: North America. Pp. 39-62 in S.D. Davis, V.H. Heywood, O. Herrera-MacBryde, J. Villa-Lobos, 

    and A.C. Hamilton (eds.), Centres of Plant Diversity: A Guide and Strategy for their Conservation, Vol. 3: The Americas. WWF and IUCN: IUCN 

    Publications Unit, Cambridge, England, U.K. 562 pp.

Stein, B.A., L.S. Kutner, and J.S. Adams (eds.). 2000. Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States. The Nature Conservancy and 

    Association for Biodiversity Information: Oxford University Press, New York. 399 pp.

In CPD3, the 32 pertinent U.S. sites identified as centers of plant diversity and endemism are listed in Table 15 (p. 50); they are discussed in an overview on pp. 49-57. Those for the conterminous USA are NA12-NA14, NA16a, NA16c-NA16g, NA17-NA38, and MA11. Detailed treatments (including maps) are given (pp. 63-96, and pp. 172-180) for NA16 (California Floristic Province), NA16c (Klamath-Siskiyou region), NA16e (Serpentine flora [western]) and NA25 (Serpentine flora [eastern]), NA16g (Vernal pools), NA29 (Central Highlands of Florida), NA32 (Edwards Plateau, Texas), and MA11 (Apachian/Madrean region of SW North America).

Bruce, I'll email you separately with a copy of my 1979 paper. You may also want to contact Dr. John Kartesz, whose BONAP database could give you an update for the information on plant endemism. His website is http://www.bonap.org/  and contact info in NC:   <mailto:jkartesz at bonap.org> jkartesz at bonap.org   tel. (919) 967-6240.

Glad you are still at it!

Bruce MacBryde, PhD

BioConservation Support 
P.O. Box 208 
Drake, CO 80515-0208 

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From: Bruce Young <Bruce_Young at natureserve.org>
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Sent: Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 7:03 am
Subject: [PCA] Priority areas for plant conservation in the US?

Hi everyone,

I’m working on a paper that describes areas with concentrations of unprotected, range-restricted species in the conterminous US states. The analysis includes both animals and plants. I’d like to compare our results to those of previous studies. I can identify several studies of priority conservation areas that include a variety of animal groups, but surprisingly couldn’t find any paper describing priority areas for plant conservation in a quick Google Scholar search. There must be such studies out there. Can anyone point me to them?

Thanks! 

Best,

Bruce

Bruce E. Young, Ph.D.

Chief Zoologist and Senior Conservation Scientist

NatureServe

+1-703-908-1805

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