We found local seedling production representing only one third (32%) of legally committed seedlings.
We highlighted some potential negative effects on the long-term ecological restoration success and presented some alternative policy actions in order to encourage local seedling production and to register seedling provenance.
For example, some invasive species can chemically suppress AMF, disrupting mutualistic associations among local tree seedlings and mycorrhizal fungi and suppressing the establishment and growth of local trees (Stinson et al. 2006; Hale and Kalisz 2012).
At first, local foresters provided seedlings, but this proved unsustainable.
Like most farmers, Ms. Scully, 46, gets her seedlings from local fisheries and grows them in cages for a year until they are almost an inch long.
This summer, a farmers market was added in front of the store, after Mr. Veeder arranged for the greenhouse at a nearby prison to provide seedlings to local farmers that they could grow to sell at the market.
Nevertheless, the disaster-relief trailer from which he doles out storm help — which now, with most cleanup complete, includes growing heirloom corn and rutabaga seedlings for local residents to start their own backyard organic farms — was provided by the city.
To acclimatise the seedlings to local growing conditions, planting material was stored close to planting places.
On Kendhoo in the Maldives, the tsunami had destroyed the local plant life, so seedlings were needed to restore the environment.
Ms. Áros's backyard cuttings are now growing in the Mission Garden and at the nonprofit Desert Survivors nursery here in town, which sells these heritage seedlings to locals.
