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Biodiversity and Green Open Space

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Horticulture: Plants for People and Places, Volume 2

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Biodiversity has been defined as the totality of genes, species, and ecosystems that inhabit the earth with the field contributing to many aspects of our lives and livelihoods by providing us with food, drink, medicines and shelter, as well as contributing to improving our surrounding environment. Benefits include providing life services through improved horticultural production, improving the business and service of horticulture as well as our environment, as well as improving our health and wellbeing, and our social and cultural relationships. Threats to biodiversity can include fragmentation, degradation and deforestation of habitat, introduction of invasive and exotic species, climate change and extreme weather events, over-exploitation of our natural resources, hybridisation, genetic pollution/erosion and food security issues and human overpopulation. This chapter examines a series of examples that provide the dual aims of biodiversity conservation and horticultural production and service; namely organic horticultural cropping, turf management, and nature-based tourism, and ways of valuing biological biodiversity such as the payment of environmental services and bio-prospecting. Horticulture plays a major role in the preserving of biodiversity.

Professor David E. Aldous – deceased 1st November 2013

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  1. The Old Vicarage, Silver Street, DT7 3HS, Lyme Regis, UK

    Ghillean T. Prance

  2. School of Land, Crop and Food Science, The University of Queensland, Gatton Campus, 4343, Lawes, Queensland, Australia

    David E. Aldous

  3. School of Agriculture, Earley Gate, University of Reading, RG6 6AR, Reading, Berkshire, UK

    Geoffrey R. Dixon

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Prance, G., Dixon, G., Aldous, D. (2014). Biodiversity and Green Open Space. In: Dixon, G., Aldous, D. (eds) Horticulture: Plants for People and Places, Volume 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8581-5_9

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