Anne Frances is a botanist with the USDA-ARS National Germplasm Resources Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, where she develops and implements projects that conserve plant genetic resources. Her research ...
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香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 SSC North American Plant Red List Authority
Overview and description
Description:
Plants that are native to North America are assessed for their conservation status by the North American Plant Red List Authority in order to enhance conservation efforts.
Group leadership
Dr Anne FRANCES
Anne Frances is a botanist with the USDA-ARS National Germplasm Resources Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, where she develops and implements projects that conserve plant genetic resources. Her research interests include crop wild relatives, ethnobotany, native plant conservation, and restoration ecology. Previously, she served as NatureServe鈥檚 Lead Botanist for almost 11 years, where she focused on conserving rare plants in the United States and Canada. She currently serves as the North America Plant Red List Authority and has collaborated on many conservation status assessment projects including Trillium, U.S. trees, and the Global Cactus Assessment. Anne worked as a field botanist for Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and the Institute for Regional Conservation in Florida and conducted field work in Costa Rica. She is a native of Miami, FL with educational degrees from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA), Florida International University (MS) and the University of Florida (PhD).
The mission of the North American Plant Red List Authority is to conduct conservation status assessments of plants native to North America in order to increase conservation efforts.
Specialist Group work
Increase the number of Red List assessments in North America, including trees, medicinal plants and rare species.
To inform conservation efforts, NAPRLA assesses species for the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Red List of Threatened Species.
Annual Report
Learn about NAPRLA鈥檚 work and results in 2023.
Endangered Forked aster Eurybia furcata, from the Great Lakes region and the Ozark Mountains, US. Credit: Commons Wikimedia.
