ex situ conservationA conservation method that entails the removal of seed, pollen, sperm or individual organisms from their original habitat, keeping these resources of biodiversity alive outside of their natural environment.
One of the first ex situ seed banks—that is, a facility for conserving seeds separately from where they grow—was set up by Russian geneticist and botanist Nikolai Vavilov in Leningrad and exists today as the N.I.
 See also: Conservation, Habitat
  
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