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Threatened plant species could be conserved by planting them "inter situ" - in wild environments outside their current geographic range - per Amazon rainforest case study

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Inter situ collections as a strategy to conserve an exceptional plant species from the Amazon rainforest

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Overview of seed harvest, propagation, establishment, and monitoring of the jaborandi inter situ collection.

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Credit: Escobar et al., 2026, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Threatened plant species could be conserved by planting them "inter situ" - in wild environments outside their current geographic range - per Amazon rainforest case study

Article URL: https://plos.io/3PUsGxl

Article title: Inter situ collections as a strategy to conserve an exceptional plant species from the Amazon rainforest

Author countries: Brazil.

Funding: This research was funded by Instituto Tecnológico Vale (grant no. R100603.CJ.01) to CFC. DFEE, MG, SJR, and CFC received salary support from Instituto Tecnológico Vale. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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