Index • 333 



Santa Rosa National Park {Costa Rica), 120 

 School of Conservation Management (Indonesia), 302 

 seed 

 collections, 188-189, 190-191 

 storage, 7, 15, 94, 169, 171-172, 173 

 Seed Savers Exchange, 190, 236 

 Selkirk Mountain Caribou Management Plan/Recov- 

 ery Plan, 115 

 Serengeti national Park (Tanzania), 44 

 serological procedures, 146-147, 177-178 

 Smithsonian Institution, 302 

 Biological Diversity Program of, 30-31 

 data collection by, 125 

 environmental expertise in, 294 

 wild plant maintenance by, 237 

 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 297 

 Society for the Advancement of Breeding Research in 



Asia and Oceania (Malaysia), 301 

 Society for the Advancement of Breeding Research- 

 ers, 143 

 Society of American Foresters (SAF), 103 

 Society for Conservation Biology, 16, 129 

 Society Islands, 44 

 Soil Conservation Service (SCS) 

 onsite restoration by, 231 

 Plant Material Centers of, 121, 237 

 somaclonal variation, 192-193 

 Somalia, 80 



somatic hybridization, 193-194 

 South America 

 data collection in, 123-124 

 in situ genebanks in, 301 

 threatened species in, 75 

 South Carolina, 230 



Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve, 118 

 Soviet Union, 125 

 in-situ conservation in, 113 

 threatened species list in, 70 

 Spain, 47, 110 

 species 

 benefits of, diversity, 37, 38, 41, 44-45, 46-47, 49, 



50-51, 53-54 

 definitions of threatened, 70 

 diversity maintenance, 90, 112, 228-231 

 habitat protection, 228-231 

 loss of, diversity, 41, 65 

 oriental treaties, 257, 258 

 status of, diversity, 68-75 

 Species Conservation Monitoring Unit (SCMU), 68, 



69, 142 

 Species Survival Plans (SSPs), 241, 242 

 Sri Lanka, 67, 300, 301 

 Stanford University, Center for Conservation Biology, 



129 

 State National Heritage Programs, 299 

 data collection by, 125, 228, 230 

 viforkings of, 230-231 

 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, 

 22, 257, 259-260, 264, 299 



Sudan, 80, 69 



Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 



(SMCRA), 120, 231 

 Sweden, 125 

 Switzerland, 139 



Tanzania, 75 



Technologies To Sustain Tropical Forest Resources, 



102 

 technology 



developing, for biological diversity, 5, 15-16, 94-96 



for microbial diversity maintenance, 208-212 



offsite maintenance, 6-8, 15-16, 90-91, 95, 137-162, 

 169-196 



onsite maintenance, 6, 15, 89-90, 95, 101-130, 224 



plant storage, 189-190 



recombinant DNA, 195 

 Tennessee Valley Authority, 230 

 Texas, 227 



Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 191 

 Thai Development Research Institute, 300 

 Thailand, 301 

 The Nature Conservancy (TNC), 228 



data collection by, 83 



ecosystem restoration by, 119 



National Heritage Data Centers, 21, 22, 127 



objectives of, 228 



onsite maintenance and, 129 



species management and, 112 



State Natural Heritage Programs of, 125, 130, 228, 

 230 

 The Nature Conservancy International (TNCI), 269 



Conservation Data Centers of, 293, 299 



database of, 21, 124 

 Treasury Department, U.S., 295 

 Trout Unlimited, 231 



Udvardy biogeographic classification system. 111, 



129, 264 

 United Brands, 236-237 

 United Kingdom, 12, 49, 68 

 agricultural breeding in, 53 

 protected areas in, 110 

 restoration project by, 156 

 United Nations Conference on the Human Environ- 

 ment. See Stockholm Conference on the Human 

 Environment 

 United Nations Development Programme, 67-68 

 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural 

 Organization (UNESCO), 244, 257, 263-270, 

 275-276 

 biosphere reserve program of, 301 

 database of, 124 

 data coordination by, 127 

 Man and the Biosphere Program of, 21, 22, 23, 30, 



107, 112, 118, 128-129, 225, 264-266 

 microbial database and, 213 

 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 22, 



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