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conservation efforts and restoration ecology in Europe. EHMEN has organised
conferences and field visits, the first of which was held at Kelmis, Belgium, in
2006. Initiatives like this are also needed on a global scale to document and
research this rich source of plant biodiversity and to document and conserve
the important biotechnological metallophyte resources (Whiting et al.
2004
;
Baker & Whiting
2008
). The authors of this chapter strongly support the need
for further biogeochemical exploration particularly in parts of the world other
than those highlighted in this review, notably much of southeast Asia, and the
establishment of a global database of metallophytes.
Acknowledgements
We dedicate this chapter to the memory of Professor Tony Bradshaw, FRS, a
former President of the British Ecological Society and pioneer in metallophyte
research and whose vision in recognising the nature and scale of evolutionary
adaptation of plants in extreme habitats has led to the discipline of restoration
ecology. He sadly passed away on 21 August 2008, during the preparation of
this chapter.
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