Foreword: International Standards for Native Seeds in Ecological Restoration

© 2020 The Authors. Restoration Ecology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Ecological Restoration. Restoration practitioners must increasingly incorporate seed procurement models and seed use planning early in project development, despite insufficient guidance about wh...

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Main Authors: Cross, Adam, Pedrini, Simone, Dixon, Kingsley
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: WILEY 2020
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Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/IC150100041
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80989
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Summary:© 2020 The Authors. Restoration Ecology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Ecological Restoration. Restoration practitioners must increasingly incorporate seed procurement models and seed use planning early in project development, despite insufficient guidance about what are reasonable expectations for the sourcing and use of native seeds. This special issue presents a series of articles examining each key step in the native seed supply chain, and provides a framework for the “standards” that need to be applied to native seed batches if the native seed supply chain is to achieve the levels of reliability and transparency required. These Standards provide seed buyers, end users, and funding bodies with a level of confidence and reliability in the sourcing of quality native seeds, and a pathway toward global best practice in native seed use.