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Pak. J. Bot., 44: 157-163, Special Issue May 2012.

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INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO REDUCE THREATS AFFECTING BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

DAWUD M. AL-EISAWI

Abstract: Biodiversity threats are becoming much more adverse than ever been. Accordingly, the conservation tasks are becoming more difficult to achieve especially, with the worse situation of global warming and climate change. Various methods can be summarized under the major themes of conservation known as In-Situ and Ex-Situ conservation. However, everyday there are certain creative methods, that are considered very creative, but most are still listed as subdivisions of the classical methods. In this paper, some classical conservation methods are reviewed and lessons learned from nature will be introduced which might have an impact on our understanding of plant conservation. The examples of conservation will be dealing mostly with plants growing in the desert and dry ecosystem. Plants species growing under little amounts of rainfall reaching 70 mm / year, as well as shifting of the flowering behavior of other species are used as examples of innovation solutions for conservation.

Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Jordan, Amman, 11942, Jordan

Corresponding author’s e-mail: aleisawi@ju.edu.jo