Workshop Recordings and Resources

This page contains recordings and resources from the May 7-9, 2024 virtual training workshop: Conducting Ex Situ Gap Analysis for Conservation Metacollections Management. More information about this workshop and grant-supported project is available here.

Resources from Emily's presentation:

• BGCI's Global Conservation Consortia

• State of the World's Trees

• Toward the Metacollection: Coordinating conservation collections to safeguard plant diversity

• Mounce, R., Smith, P., & Brockington, S. (2017, September 25). Ex situ conservation of plant diversity in the world’s botanic gardens. Nature Plants, 3(10), 795–802. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-017-0019-3

Resources from this presentation:

• Conservation Gap Analysis Methodology User Guide: Bruns, E.B. (2023). Conservation Gap Analysis Methodology User Guide, Version 1.0. The Morton Arboretum. https://mortonarb.org/plant-and-protect/global-tree-conservation/gap-analysis-materials/

• Global Conservation Gap Analysis of Magnolia

Resources from Abby's Presentation:

• BGCI PlantSearch

• Geolocation tools

  • Map Developers

  • GEOLocate

  • Google Maps

Resources from Jean's presentation:

• Resources for ex situ/germplasm data

• Genesys Plant and Genetic Resources (PGR)

• FAO World Information and Early Warning System on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (WIEWS)

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) with occurrence records filtered for living specimens

• Resources for wild locality data

• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

• iNaturalist (crowdsourced species identification system and organism occurrence recording tool)

• iDigBio - Integrated Digitized Biocollections

• Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN)

• Biota of North America Program (BONAP)

• Tropicos

• Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA): USDA Forest Service Program (United States only)

• States programs via NatureServe

• USDA-ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)

• Various herbarium consortia:

  • SEINet Portal Network- Regional Network of North American Herbaria, Symbiota portals

  • Consortium of California Herbarium (CCH2)

  • Consortium of Midwest Herbaria

  • Consortium of Northeastern Herbaria (CNH)

  • Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections (SERNEC)

• Tools for recording field data

• ArcGIS Field Maps

• iNaturalist

• GaiaGPS

• Kobotoolbox

• ArcGIS Survey 123

(Note: these lists are not meant to be exhaustive)

Resources from Colin's presentation:

• Blog article on the history of gap analysis (includes links to all papers and resources)

• Interactive websites on crop wild relatives of the USA

  • Crop Wild Relatives of the U.S. (USDA - Agricultural Research Service)

  • Distributions and conservation status of crop wild relatives of the United States 

    • Storage and visualization of species level summary documentation from the paper "Crop wild relatives of the United States require urgent conservation action" 

• Gap Analysis R package

• North American Fruit and Nut Crop Wild Relatives

• Comprehensiveness of conservation of useful wild plants: Code, data, and results sites:

  • Code

  • Data for the calculation of an indicator of the comprehensiveness of conservation of useful wild plants

  • Results: An Indicator of the Conservation Status of Useful Wild Plants

Relevant papers by Colin and contributing authors:

• Carver et al. (2021) GapAnalysis: an R package to calculate conservation indicators using spatial information. Ecography 44(7): 1000-1009. 

• Khoury et al. (2021) Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity. New Phytologist 233(1): 84-118.

• Khoury and Carver et al. (2020) Crop wild relatives of the United States require urgent conservation action. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 117(52): 33351-33357.

• Khoury et al. (2020) Toward integrated conservation of North America’s crop wild relatives. Natural Areas Journal 40(1): 96-100.

• Khoury et al. (2019) Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.). Plants, People, Planet 2(3): 269-283.

• Khoury et al. (2019) A road map for conservation, use, and public engagement around crop wild relatives and wild utilized plants of North America. Crop Science 59(6): 2302-2307.

• Khoury et al. (2019) Comprehensiveness of conservation of useful wild plants: an operational indicator for biodiversity and sustainable development targets. Ecological Indicators 98: 420-429.

• Greene et al. (eds.) (2019 and 2020) North American Crop Wild Relatives. 

  • Volume 1: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95101-0

  • Volume 2: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97121-6

• Castañeda-Álvarez and Khoury et al. (2016) Global conservation priorities for crop wild relatives. Nature Plants 2(4): 16022. 

• Khoury et al. (2013) An inventory of crop wild relatives of the United States. Crop Science 53(4): 1496.

• Ramírez-Villegas et al. (2010) A gap analysis methodology for collecting crop genepools: a case study with Phaseolus beans. PLoS One 5(10): e13497.

Resources from Dan's presentation:

• Tutorial: Using the GAMMA app (will be updated along with development of the app)

Resources from Lauren's presentation:

• Conservation Genetics resources pack (downloadable .zip file)

Resources from Sean's Presentation:

• Conservation Gap Analysis of Native U.S. Oaks, The Morton Arboretum (2019)

• Conservation Gap analysis of Nine Priority Genera, The Morton Arboretum (2021)

• Hoban, S., et al. (2020). Taxonomic similarity does not predict necessary sample size for ex situ conservation: a comparison among five genera. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1926). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0102

• Schumacher, E., et al. (2024). Examining previously neglected aspects of ex situ gene conservation in two IUCN threatened plant species: Rare alleles, redundancy, ecogeographic representativeness, and relatedness. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 185(2), 198–209. https://doi.org/10.1086/728186

• Backs, J. R., Hoban, S., & Ashley, M. V. (2021). Genetic diversity assessment of ex situ collections of endangered Quercus hinckleyi. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 182(3), 220–228. https://doi.org/10.1086/712783

• Rosenberger, K., et al. (2021). Proportional sampling strategy often captures more genetic diversity when population sizes vary. Biological Conservation, 261, 109261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109261

• Integrated Collections Development (2023), BGCI

Resources from Amy's presentation:

• Oak Metacollection Dashboard