Notes on Aquarium Plant Production in Peruvian Amazonia
| dc.contributor.author | Lehtonen, Samuli | |
| dc.contributor.author | Arévalo, Luis Angel Rodríguez | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-06-21 | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-06-21 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Two Echinodorus species were produced in masses in Peruvian Amazonia for international aquarium plant trade from the 1950s to 1990s. In the beginning of this time period production was large-scale including field cultivation, but to the end of the period production faded rapidly. Decline in production was a consequence of rapid development of aquarium plant cultivation in Asia, U.S.A. and Europe. Nowadays aquarium plant production involves in vitro propagation and other highly sophisticated methods, and thus re-establishing large-scale aquarium plant production in Amazonian countries may not be economically viable. However, due to high biodiversity in Amazonia, the area may have a significant role in new aquarium cultivar prospecting. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lehtonen S, Arévalo LAR. 2005. Notes on aquarium plant production in Peruvian Amazonia. Ethnobotany Research & Applications 3:209-214. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1547-3465 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/172 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaii at Manoa | |
| dc.title | Notes on Aquarium Plant Production in Peruvian Amazonia | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |