330 • Technologies To Maintain Biological Diversity 



International Union for the Protection of New Varie- 

 ties of Plants (lUPOV), 260-262 

 in-vitro culture. 7, 15, 94 

 for animal diversity maintenance, 155 

 for offsite plant collections, 172, 172, 177, 186, 

 192-193, 194 

 Iowa, 66 

 Ireland, 139 

 Izaak Walton League of America, 231 



Japan, 15, 47 



Kafue National Park (Zambia), 44 

 Kansas, University of, 242 

 Kenya, 46, 49, 301 



diversity project, in, 294 



protected areas in, 109 

 Keystone Center 



germplasm exchange and, 26 

 Kingman Resource Area (Arizona), 115 

 Kiribati, 109 



Kobuk Valley (Alaska), 46 



Kuna Indian Udirbi Tropical Forest Reserve (Pana- 

 ma), 297 



Lacey Act of 1900, amendments to, 23, 255 

 Land and Water Conservation Fund 



data collection and, 21 



refuges funded by, 230 

 Latin America, 22, 25, 302 



biological diversity in, 75 



breed resource categorization in, 160 



Conservation Data Centers in, 299 



quarantine facilities in, 147 

 legislation 



diversity maintenance, 7-8, 11-13, 18, 23, 26, 27-28, 

 31-32, 254-262, 223, 258 



international, 254-262, 258 



plant patenting, 25 



U.S., 222, 228, 2301233, 223, 261 

 Liberia, 301 



Longleaf-Slash Pine Forest, 41 

 lyophilization, 210, 212 



Madagascar, 71 



Malayan Nature Society, 71, 298 



Malaysia, 47, 50, 71, 81 



development assistance to, 297, 298 

 Man in the Biosphere Program (MAB), 30, 128-129, 

 225, 264-266 



database of, 21 



diversity maintenance strategy of, 118 



onsite maintenance as goal of, 225 



protected areas and, 107, 112 



U.S. support for, 22, 23 

 Marine Sanctuary Program, 111 

 Massachusetts, 5, 40-41 

 Mauritania, 69 



Meat Animal Research Center (MARC), 239 

 Mesa Verde (Colorado), 46 



Mexican National Research Institute for Biological 



Resources (INIREB), 298 

 Mexico 



bilateral program in, 305 



diversity loss in, 80 



diversity management strategy in, 118-119 



in situ genebank for, 301 



teosinte habitat in, 122 

 Michigan, University of, 302 

 Microbiological Resource Center (Hawaii), 244 

 Microbiological Resource Centers, 213, 275, 305 

 micro-organisms 



collections of, 242-244 



cuhures of, 211-212, 213 



diversity maintenance for, 205-213, 275, 206 



identification of, 209 



isolation of, 7, 91, 208-209, 213 



storage methods for, 209-212 

 Minnesota, 14, 46, 200, 241 

 Minnesota, University of, 242 

 modeling 



data collection for, 108-109 



for plant collecting, 173-175 



for protected areas, 107, 108-109, 114 



of species-area relationships, 71-74 

 Mongolia, 119, 156 

 Montana State University, 129 

 Montevideo Botanic Gardens, 273 

 Morrocoy National Park (Venezuela), 49 

 Moscow Botanic Gardens, 273 

 Mount Everest, 46 

 Mount Kenya, 46 

 Mount Taishan (China), 46 

 Mozambique, 80 



multilateral development banks (MDBs), 23-24, 

 294-296 



National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 26, 160 



National Agricultural Library, 160 



National Audubon Society, 231 



National Biological Diversity Act, proposal for, 11-12 



National Board for Domestic Animal Resources, 

 proposal for, 162 



national clonal repository (Oregon), 235 



National Conservation Education Act, proposal for, 

 14 



National Conservation Strategy (NCS), 12, 115, 300 



National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 12, 80-81, 

 127 



National Forest Management Act of 1976, 11, 222, 

 226, 231-232 



National Forest System, 225, 231-232 



National Foundation on Arts and Humanities Act of 

 1965, 17 



National Heritage Data Centers, 21 



National Institutes of Health (NIH), 213 



National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 228-229 



National Microbial Resource Network, proposed crea- 

 tion of, 212-213 



National Natural Landmarks, 227 



