Nowhere Else on Earth: An Interpretive Toolkit for Ex-Situ Conservation of Sri Lanka's Endemic Flora
| dc.contributor.author | Lee, Mary | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-20T18:40:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-20T18:40:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In 2017, Nature Plants published the most comprehensive inventory of botanic garden living collections that has been conducted to date. The analysis found that botanic gardens worldwide house roughly 30% of all formally recognized plant species. Furthermore, the data revealed a substantial discrepancy in the ratio of plants native to temperate regions versus those native to tropical. Approximately 76% of the plant species not currently accessioned by any garden are native to tropical areas. Within this subset of tropical plants, there are substantiated concerns that endemic plants might more easily become endangered or extinct as other stressors compound with their already restricted distribution scale. Sri Lanka’s landscape is teeming with floristic species, a trait that may be the result of evolution in terrestrial solitude. As of 2020, 863 angiosperms were considered endemic to the island. Of these 863 endemics, 625 (approximately 73% of the total endemic island plants) were classified as threatened. I have fully executed the design process and interpretive planning for a conservatory display, a venture rooted in the belief that humans are primed to feel an attachment to the things we can directly experience and understand. Above retention of fact or reiteration of experience, I hope the exhibit will facilitate a chance for the lens through which they engage with local flora to become more intentional. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/113478 | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International | * |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | * |
| dc.title | Nowhere Else on Earth: An Interpretive Toolkit for Ex-Situ Conservation of Sri Lanka's Endemic Flora | en_US |
| dc.type | dissertation or thesis | en_US |
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