Curatorial Practices for Botanical Gardens - Softcover

Hohn, Timothy C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1538151782 ISBN 13: 9781538151785

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022

Synopsis

This breakthrough handbook for botanical garden and arboretum curators (and curators in training) has now been expanded and updated fifteen years after the last edition was published.

The new edition includes up-to-date information and methods for the preservation and conservation of plants and their use in both ex-situ and in-situ conservation programs, habitat restorations, and conservation research.

There are expanded and updated sections on plant acquisitions and field collecting that conform to the Convention on Biological Diversity protocols.

New technologies for documenting plant collections are described including reviews of the most common software programs to streamline this process.

Recommendations for plant preservation—caring for collections—have been updated with expanded information on basic horticulture practice, sustainable techniques, special applications for conservation collections, and examples of preservation plans.

There is an entirely new section on collections research and applications with several chapters on the latest conservation practices, technologies, and programs involving collections.

All of the basic and essential information for collections management contained within the first edition, including specific recommendations and examples, has been expanded and updated with recommendations on new technologies and procedures to assist and guide curators in their critical role as plant collection developers, managers, and programmers.

What is an important resource for public garden professionals and students has now become even more essential.

About this title

About the Author

Timothy C. Hohn is a retired faculty member and Chair of the Horticulture Department at Edmonds College, where he taught horticulture for 22 years. He received a Masters degree in Public Garden Management from the University of Delaware’s Longwood Program in 1986 and is the author of Curatorial Practices for Botanical Gardens, also by Rowman & Littlefield.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538151782
• ISBN 13: 9781538151785
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 414