| Description |
The University of Barcelona's Geobotanical and Cartographic Research Group set up in 2004 a project aimed at creating a seed bank of the plants of the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park. The main objective is the indefinitely preservation of a significant part of the park's plant diversity in a seed bank. The bank whose preserved this seeds is the Barcelona Botanical Garden seed bank. Plants that are considered to be of priority within the park's flora – endemic species, orophytes with disjoint distributions, generally rare plants, etc. – were selected. Each collected sample consists of over 3,000 seeds, the minimum number recognised by various conservation programmes as genetically sufficiently diverse. |
