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Special Issue: Advances in plant translocation

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Many plant species around the globe are threatened or already extirpated from the wild as a result of habitat loss, pollution, alien invasive species and climate change. Translocation is now becoming a common conservation action, sometimes highly successful, sometimes dramatically discouraging. The 1st International Plant Translocation Conference (IPTC2022) in Rome, Italy from June 20-23, 2022 will provide a forum to share experiences aimed at improving translocation science and practice.

This special issue provided an opportunity for IPTC2022 attendees willing to publish their results to transform their accepted abstracts into full manuscripts, thus contributing to the advancement of the field of translocation. We also welcomed external contributions from authors not attending IPTC2022 but willing to publish relevant research within the general topic of plant translocation. Students and Early Career Researchers are especially encouraged to submit.

We sought empirical, experimental, methodological and review papers reporting on of all types of translocation (i.e., population reinforcement, introduction, reintroduction, assisted colonizations, de-extinction, etc.). Perspective and theoretical articles also included.

Manuscripts dealing with the main conference topics were given priority:

1. Adaptive monitoring and management for maintaining reintroduced populations

2. Using new technologies for designing and monitoring translocation

3. Multi-species approach and biotic interactions in translocation

4. Ex situ conservation approaches for increasing success in translocation

5. Translocation in urban and agriculture landscapes

6. Ecological restoration for threatened species conservation

7. Assisted colonization of threatened plants

8. Policy analysis and advancement in plant translocation

We did not accept translocation reports or technical descriptions of translocation cases.

All manuscripts underwent peer review under the expert supervision of the special issue team with specific expertise in translocation science.

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Editors

  • Thomas Abeli Thomas Abeli  &

    Thomas Abeli

    Associate Professor of Conservation Biology and Botany at the University of Roma Tre, Prof. Abeli is a plant ecologist working in plant conservation and a red listing expert. Member of the IUCN Conservation Translocation Specialist Group since 2013. He has been involved in several plant translocation projects in northern Italy. Prof. Abeli published nearly 80 scientific papers and co-authored the Italian Guidelines for Plant Translocation. He is currently working on the link between ex situ and in situ conservation, translocation in agricultural landscapes and plant de-extinction.

  • Sarah E. Dalrymple Sarah E. Dalrymple

    Sarah E. Dalrymple

    Senior Lecturer in Conservation Ecology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, Dr. Dalrymple is a plant ecologist focusing on threatened species and responses to global threats, and on the efficacy of conservation interventions. She has undertaken practical conservation initiatives such as reintroduction, reviewed threatened plant translocations, and contributed to policy documents, such as co-authoring IUCN Reintroductions Guidelines and the Scottish Code for Conservation Translocations. She is currently working to find cross-disciplinary commonalities, opportunities to use translocations as bioassays of environmental change.

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