TY  - INPR
A1  - Bucharova, Anna
A1  - Bossdorf, Oliver
A1  - Scheepens, Johannes Fredericus
A1  - Salguero-Gómez, Roberto
T1  - Sustainable seed harvesting in wild plant populations
T2  - bioRxiv
N2  - Seed harvesting from wild plant populations is key for ecological restoration, but may threaten the persistence of source populations. Consequently, several countries have set guidelines limiting the proportions of harvestable seeds. Here, we use high-resolution data from 298 plant species to model the demographic consequences of seed harvesting. We find that the current guidelines only protect some species, but are insufficient or overly restrictive for others. We show that the maximum possible fraction of seed harvesting is strongly associated with harvesting frequency and generation time of the target species, ranging from 100% in long-lived species to <1% in the most annuals. Our results provide quantitative basis to guide seed harvesting legislation based on species’ generation time and harvesting regime.
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/73159
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-731596
IS  - 2023.01.12.523821
ER  -