Restoration managers may select seed from a variety sources for their restoration projects. If the purchased seed is not of the local ecotype, land managers run the risk of poor establishment in the short-term and outcrossing between local and non-local ecotypes, genetic swamping, and the loss of local genetic diversity in the long-term.

Last modified

• 11/08/2023

Creator

• Gallagher, Megan Katherine

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N21D4G

Subject

• plant biology

Publisher

• Northwestern University Libraries

Language

• English

Keyword

• plant biology

Date created

• 2011-05-24

Resource type

• Masters Thesis

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• In Copyright

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• All rights reserved