Orchid Biodiversity: Population Dynamics and Conservation Challenges
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 March 2026 | Viewed by 268
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Biodiversity Research, Czechglobe, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Belidla 4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: species diversity; population and metapopulation dynamics; evolution of life histories; landscape connectivity; nature protection; insect pests and their predators; orchids; large mammals
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Understanding diversity patterns and how they are affected by global change are topics of active discussion in biodiversity research. In response to species declines, it is important to understand patterns of diversity and develop a knowledge base for use in species conservation. We still do not know, for example, the abiotic and biotic requirements for population persistence for most species.
Given the increasing threats to orchids globally, in this Special Issue, we concentrate on the orchid family because it has a large number of species and more than 50% of these species have been assessed to fall into one or more risk categories. Given the large number of orchid species, relatively few have been studied in detail. As a result, it is difficult to determine the best approach for conserving species and this Special Issue aims to fill in some of these gaps in our knowledge. To achieve this, we welcome a range of contributions on themes including, but not limited to, the following:
- Orchid species distribution models.
- Orchid population dynamics and their effects on orchid diversity.
- Orchid conservation measures and an evaluation or their true effect on orchid diversity.
- Orchid diversity in individual regions/countries and its association with particularities of these regions.
Prof. Dr. Pavel Kindlmann
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- orchids
- biodiversity
- population dynamics
- species survival
- biological conservation
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