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Julien M, Ducrettet J, Diallo M, Imbert E, Colas B, Schatz B. Plant Translocations in France: Identifying Gaps between Knowledge, Practice and Perception by Conservation Actors. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2024:10.1007/s00267-024-02055-4. [PMID: 39327284 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-024-02055-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2024] [Accepted: 09/19/2024] [Indexed: 09/28/2024]
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In the current context of global changes, threatened flora is declining and homogenising at the expense of rare and protected species. Among conservation biology and ecological restoration techniques, plant translocation is one of the recommendations increasingly used. However, translocation remains risky and is recommended as a last resort to conserve protected flora in land use planning. Furthermore, it raises ethical questions partly linked to genetic processes. In this context, we studied how plant translocations are perceived by conservation actors in France, including their genetic aspects. The analysis of translocation perception complements that of feedback on concrete translocation operations and allows us to provide a qualitative assessment of current practices. We have adopted an interdisciplinary approach to survey different types of actors in nature conservation, involved or not in at least one stage of translocation operations (preparation, implementation and monitoring). Three main types of translocation perception divide our sample quite strongly (50% favourable/ 45% unfavourable/ 5% undecided). Surprisingly, their professional activity or the level of involvement in such an operation have no influence on their opinion on translocation, nor on the proposals of alternative measures. Only 15% of the actors involved in translocations used genetic data at least once. To conclude, it would be necessary to promote the sharing of feedback from past experiences. This would allow an up-to-date list of species unacceptable for translocation. Comparing the results of different protocols and implementation conditions for the same species or group should improve overall translocation success rates.
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Affiliation(s)
- Margaux Julien
- CEFE, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, EPHE IRD, Montpellier, France.
- Ecotonia, Eguilles, France.
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Gif sur Yvette, France
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Albani Rocchetti G, Carta A, Mondoni A, Godefroid S, Davis CC, Caneva G, Albrecht MA, Alvarado K, Bijmoer R, Borosova R, Bräuchler C, Breman E, Briggs M, Buord S, Cave LH, Da Silva NG, Davey AH, Davies RM, Dickie JB, Fabillo M, Fleischmann A, Franks A, Hall G, Kantvilas G, Klak C, Liu U, Medina L, Reinhammar LG, Sebola RJ, Schönberger I, Sweeney P, Voglmayr H, White A, Wieringa JJ, Zippel E, Abeli T. Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria. NATURE PLANTS 2022; 8:1385-1393. [PMID: 36536014 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-022-01296-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Resurrecting extinct species is a fascinating and challenging idea for scientists and the general public. Whereas some theoretical progress has been made for animals, the resurrection of extinct plants (de-extinction sensu lato) is a relatively recently discussed topic. In this context, the term 'de-extinction' is used sensu lato to refer to the resurrection of 'extinct in the wild' species from seeds or tissues preserved in herbaria, as we acknowledge the current impossibility of knowing a priori whether a herbarium seed is alive and can germinate. In plants, this could be achieved by germinating or in vitro tissue-culturing old diaspores such as seeds or spores available in herbarium specimens. This paper reports the first list of plant de-extinction candidates based on the actual availability of seeds in herbarium specimens of globally extinct plants. We reviewed globally extinct seed plants using online resources and additional literature on national red lists, resulting in a list of 361 extinct taxa. We then proposed a method of prioritizing candidates for seed-plant de-extinction from diaspores found in herbarium specimens and complemented this with a phylogenetic approach to identify species that may maximize evolutionarily distinct features. Finally, combining data on seed storage behaviour and longevity, as well as specimen age in the novel 'best de-extinction candidate' score (DEXSCO), we identified 556 herbarium specimens belonging to 161 extinct species with available seeds. We expect that this list of de-extinction candidates and the novel approach to rank them will boost research efforts towards the first-ever plant de-extinction.
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Research Department, Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium
- Service général de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche scientifique, Fédération Wallonie, Brussels, Belgium
- Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Organismic Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Botany Section, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst; Ardingly, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, UK
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- Conservatoire botanique national de Brest, Brest, France
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- Departamento de Botânica, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seed and Lab-Based Collections, Sussex, UK
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- Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seed and Lab-Based Collections, Sussex, UK
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- Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha, Toowong, Queensland, Australia
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- Botanische Staatssammlung München (SNSB-BSM), and GeoBio-Center LMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha, Toowong, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre sur la biodiversité de l'Université de Montréal (CITES CA-035), Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia
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- Bolus Herbarium, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wellcome Trust Millennium Building, West Sussex, England, UK
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- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand; WITS, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Allan Herbarium, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department for Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- CSIRO Black Mountain Laboratories, Black Mountain, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Botany Section, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Dahlem Seed Bank, Botanical Garden and Botanic Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
- IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Julien M, Colas B, Muller S, Schatz B. Quality assessment of mitigation translocation protocols for protected plants in France. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 302:114064. [PMID: 34800770 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Mitigation translocations are increasingly used worldwide in response to land planning pressures. The quality of translocation protocols and their adjustment to the ecological traits of the translocated populations are crucial to optimise translocation success. We studied the quality of translocation protocols presented in derogation requests, a mandatory step in France to translocate a protected plant species. We analysed 103 translocation proposals for 93 different species in 92 files examined between 2018 and 2020. After tracing the history of the place of translocations in legal procedures in France, we assessed each translocation proposal according to an evaluation grid, which involved the quantity and quality of information on plant species and translocation sites in the files and the quality of translocation protocols. We have shown that the translocation protocols are of low quality, with a lot of missing information. The biology and ecology of the species suggested for translocation are not sufficiently known, nor are the ecological characteristics of the host sites. Derogation requests that received a favourable opinion from the assessment body are more likely to propose a protected host site and post-translocation monitoring. We believe that, to optimise their outcome, mitigation translocations need to be improved upstream, with more detailed protocols and better species knowledge. We highly recommend following the same guidelines for mitigation translocations as for conservation translocations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Margaux Julien
- CEFE, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France; Ecotonia, 60 Rue Tourmaline, 13510, Eguilles, France.
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7205, MNHN-CNRS-UPMC-EPHE-UA, CP 39, 16 Rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France
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- CEFE, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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Abeli T, Albani Rocchetti G, Barina Z, Bazos I, Draper D, Grillas P, Iriondo JM, Laguna E, Moreno-Saiz JC, Bartolucci F. Seventeen 'extinct' plant species back to conservation attention in Europe. NATURE PLANTS 2021; 7:282-286. [PMID: 33686227 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-021-00878-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 02/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Seventeen European endemic plant species were considered extinct, but improved taxonomic and distribution knowledge as well as ex situ collecting activities brought them out of the extinct status. These species have now been reported into a conservation framework that may promote legal protection and in situ and ex situ conservation.
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- Thomas Abeli
- Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
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- Section of Ecology and Systematics, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Greece
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- Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência/CE3C- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change, Lisbon, Portugal
- UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research, and Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Tour du Valat, Research Institute for the Conservation of Mediterranean Wetlands, Arles, France
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- Biodiversity and Conservation Area, ESCET, Rey Juan Carlos University, Móstoles, Spain
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- Wildlife Service - CIEF (Centre for Forestry Research and Experimentation), Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Center for Research on Biodiversity and Global Change (CIBC-UAM), Madrid, Spain
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- School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
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