Providing a quantitative assessment of threatened plant populations,
that holds for varying management scenarios, has become an essential
part of conservation planning. Here, renowned plant ecologists provide
information on: major threats to plants, when and where to conduct a
plant viability assessment (PVA), what type of PVA to conduct, what
alternative options to PVA are available, what information is required
for which kind of viability assessment, what attributes of the
population in question should be considered, and what the limits of the
PVA would be. As such, this volume can be used as a training tool for
the environmental manager or a teaching aid for reviewing the current
state of knowledge on plant population viability.