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Two major in situ conservation activities are: Setting aside nature reserves (various kinds of protected areas representative of remnant natural communities), and restoration/reconstruction of functioning plant and animal communities on degraded or polluted/distributed lands. An essential by-product of industrial civilization, as noted by A. D. Bradshaw (a pioneer in restoration ecology with a strong emphasis on evolutionary ecology), is the toxic metal waste left on mined lands. Bradshaw and his colleagues have studied genetic variation in metal tolerance in many plant species and have applied this knowledge in the successful choices of species and genotypes for revegetating derelict areas.
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Jain, S.K. (1994). B: Heavy metal tolerance, plant evolution and restoration ecology. In: Loeschcke, V., Jain, S.K., Tomiuk, J. (eds) Conservation Genetics. EXS, vol 68. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8510-2_33
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