Index • 331 



National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 



Ill, 294, 302 

 National Park Service (NPS), U.S., 30, 302 



Boundary Model of, 114 



database integration by, 125 



diversity maintenance as objective in, 226-227 



diversity management strategy of, 117, 118 



ecosystem restoration by, 119 



environmental expertise in, 294 



onsite maintenance technology by, 128 



onsite restoration by, 232 



threats from areas adjacent to, 224 

 National Plant Genetic Resources Board, 233, 235 

 National Plant Germplasm Committee, 233, 235 

 National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS), 8, 18, 19, 

 222, 232-237, 246, 303 



clonal repositories, 186, 187, 188 



diversity assessment by, 188, 189 



evolution of, 174 



Germplasm Resources Information Network, 190, 

 191 



seed storage by, 180 



technology development by, 195 

 National Sanctuaries Program, 115 

 National Science Foundation (NSF), 16 



Division of Biotic Systems and Resources, 16 



experimental ecological areas and, 226 



offsite maintenance research and, 159 



offsite management training by, 158 



research and, 16, 129-130, 196, 213 

 National Seed Storage Laboratory (NSSL), 19, 233, 

 246 



facilities of, 236 



funding for, 18 



storage practices of, 180-181, 183 

 National Small Grains collection, U.S., 190, 233 

 National Water Commission, 12 

 National Wilderness Preservation System, 224 



management strategy for, 117 

 National Wildlife Refuge System, 224, 229-230 

 National Wildlife Refuges, 226 

 National Zoo (Washington, D.C.), 158 

 National Zoo Conservation and Research Center (Vir- 

 ginia), 303 

 Native Seeds/SEARCH, 122 

 Natural History Museum of Lima, 298 

 Navaho Nation, 230 

 Nebraska, 151 



Neisseria Reference Laboratory, 242 

 Nepal, 47, 49 



Department of Medicinal Plants in, 51 



national conservation strategy for, 300 



threatened species list in, 71 

 Nevada, 66 

 New Hampshire, 66 

 New Zealand, 287 



nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 263-264, 

 267-268 

 diversity maintenance programs of, 16, 17, 30-31 

 international conservation operations of, 14-15 



NOTE: Page numbers appearing in italics are referring to information 



linkages with AID by, 294, 298 

 Nordic Gene Bank (Sweden, 172 

 North America, 25, 41, 125, 151 



agricultural breeding in, 52-53 



captive breeding in, 156 



data collection in, 124 



diversity loss in, 63 



threatened species in, 70 

 North American Fruit Explorers, 190 

 Northern Regional Research Laboratory (NRRL), 242, 



244 

 North Yemen, 80 



Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park, 



118 

 Oceania 



breed resource categorization in, 160 



diversity loss in, 80 



domestic animal monitoring in, 143 



threatened species lists in, 70 

 Office of Endangered Species, 237 

 Office of Forestry, Natural Resources, and the En- 

 vironment (FNR), 292 

 Office of Management and Budget, 267 

 offsite diversity maintenance 



animal programs for, 238-242 



choosing strategies for, 138-142 



classification of plant collections for, 170-171 



facilities for, 158 



funding for, 158, 159, 160-162, 235-238, 242-244, 

 246 



improvements needed for, 157-162, 194-196 



international laws relating to, 259-262 



international programs for, 259-275 



micro-organism, 208, 213, 242-244 



objectives of, 137-138, 169-171 



plant programs for, 90-91, 173-178, 232-238 



population sampling strategies for, 142-145 



storing samples for, 91, 178-190, 194-195 



technology for, 6-8, 15-16, 90-91, 95, 137-162, 

 169-196 



using plants stored for, 190-194 

 Oklahoma, 227 

 Olympic National Park, 43 

 onsite diversity maintenance 



data collection for, 123-127, 130 



for ecosystems, 89-90, 111-112, 128-129 



funding programs for, 229 



improvements needed for, 128-130 



international laws for, 255-259 



international programs for, 264-268 



management, 115-119 



micro-organism, 207-208, 206 



personnel development for, 130 



planning techniques, 113-116 



restoring, 231-232 



for species, 90 



technology for, 6, 15, 89-90, 95, 103-130, 224 



trade-offs involving, 113 

 Oregon, 47 



mentioned in the boxes. 



