TY  - JOUR
A1  - Adam, Paul
T1  - Rarity, rare plant species and the New South Wales Threatened Species Conservation Act : conservation opportunities and challenges
T2  - Cunninghamia : a journal of plant ecology for eastern Australia
N2  - Rare species have long exerted a particular fascination for many botanists. The reasons for this are discussed, as are the justifications for the scientific study of rare and threatened species. A high proportion of the threatened species currently on the Schedules of threatened species in New South Wales were first collected by the earliest botanical explorers. Possible reasons for their success in finding rare species are speculated upon.
Legislative requirements for the identification of threatened species have arisen under the Biodiversity Convention, and the particular regime established by the New South Wales Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 is described. Features of the plants currently included on the New South Wales Schedules are discussed and the question as to whether they are affected by a variety of recording biases is examined. The consequences of listing for the long term conservation of threatened species are explored.
Y1  - 2002
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36835
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-368355
SN  - 0727-9620
VL  - 7
IS  - 4
SP  - 651
EP  - 669
ER  -