CPC Best Plant Conservation Practices

to Support Species Survival in the Wild

Horticulture Best Practices References & Resources

Baskin, C. and Baskin, J.M. 2014. Seed Ecology, Biogeography, and Evolution of Dormancy and Germination. 2nd Edition. Academic Press, Cambridge.

Baskin, C.C., K. Thompson, and J.M. Baskin. 2006. Mistakes in germination ecology and how to avoid them. Seed Science Research 16: 165-168.

Dumroese, R. K., T. Luna, D. Thomas, editors. 2009. Nursery manual for native plants: A guide for tribal nurseries – Volume 1: Nursery management. Agricultural Handbook 730. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 302 p. https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_series/wo/wo_ah730.pdf

Finch-Savage, W.E. & Footitt, S. (2017) Seed dormancy cycling and the regulation of dormancy mechanisms to time germination in variable field environments. Journal of Experimental Botany 68:843–856.

Flint, M.L. 2012. PM in Practice: Principles and Methods of Integrated Pest Management, Second Edition. University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Publication 3418.

Griffith, M.P., E. Beckman, T. Calicrate, J. Clark, T. Clase, S. Deans, M. Dosmann, J. Fant, X. Gratacos, K. Havens, S. Hoban, M. Lobdell, F. Jimenez-Rodriguez, A. Kramer, R. Lacy, T. Magellan, J. Maschinski, A.W. Meerow, A. Meyer, V. Sanchez, E. Spence, P. Toribio, S. Walsh, M. Westwood, and J. Wood. 2019. Toward the metacollection: Safeguarding plant diversity and coordinating conservation collections. Botanic Gardens Conservation International-US (San Marino, USA).

Hawaiian Native Plant Propagation Database https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/hawnprop/biblio.html

Hove, A.A, S.J. Mazer, and C.T. Ivey. 2016. Seed set variation in wild Clarkia populations: teasing apart the effects of seasonal resource depletion, pollen quality and pollen quantity. Ecology and Evolution 6: 6524-6536.

International Plant Propagators Society http://ipps.org/resources

Kearns, C.A. and D.W. Inouye. 1993. Techniques for pollination biologists. University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO. p. 583

Kildisheva, O.A., K. W. Dixon, F. A. O. Silveira, T. Chapman, A. Di Sacco, A. Mondoni, S. R. Turner, and A. T. Cross. 2020. Dormancy and germination: making every seed count in restoration. Restoration Ecology 28:S256-S265.

Landis, T.D., T. Luna, and R.K. Dumroese. 2009. Holistic Pest Management In:  Dumroese, R. K., T. Luna, D. Thomas, editors. Nursery manual for native plants: A guide for tribal nurseries – Volume 1: Nursery management. Agricultural Handbook 730. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. pp. 263-273.

Lilleeng-Rosenberger, K.L. 2005. Growing Hawaii’s Native Plants: A Simple Step-by-Step Approach for Every Species. Mutual Publishing. Link

Mitchell, J., Johnston, I.G., & Bassel, G.W. 2017. Variability in seeds: biological, ecological, and agricultural implications. Journal of Experimental Biology 68,809–817.

Native Plant Network Propagation Protocol Database. US Forest Service. https://npn.rngr.net/propagation

Olkowski, W., S. Daar, and H. Olkowski. 1991. Common-Sense Pest Control: Least-Toxic Solutions for Your Home, Garden, Pets and Community. Taunton Press, Inc., Newtown, CT.

Penfield, S. 2017. Seed dormancy and germination. Current Biology 27,R853–R909.

Rees, M. 1996. Evolutionary ecology of seed dormancy and seed size. Philos. Trans. Biol. Sciences 351,1299–1308.

Rivest, S. and M. Vellend. 2018. Herbivory and pollen limitation at the upper elevational range limit of two forest understory plants of eastern North America. Ecology and Evolution  8: 892-903.

Springthorpe, V. and S. Penfield. 2015. Flowering time and seed dormancy control use external coincidence to generate life history strategy. Plant Biology DOI: 10.7554/eLife.0557

Walsh, S. 2015. Floral biology, breeding system, pollination ecology, and ex situ genetic diversity of the endangered Hawaiian species, Brighamia insignis A.Gray (Campanulaceae). M.S., University of Hawai’I, Manoa, Hawai’I, USA.

Weekley, C. W. and T. Race. 2001. The breeding system of Ziziphus celata Judd and D.W. Hall (Rhamnaceae), a rare endemic plant of the Lake Wales Ridge, Florida, USA: implications for recovery. Biological Conservation 100:207-213.

Wilkinson, K.M. 2009. Discovering ways to improve production and plant quality. In: Dumroese, R. K., T. Luna, D. Thomas, editors. Nursery manual for native plants: A guide for tribal nurseries – Volume 1: Nursery management. Agricultural Handbook 730. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. pp. 291-302.