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Developing best practice for seed sourcing for planting and natural regeneration in the neotropics
Project
Project code: vTI-FG-08-28
Contract period: 01.05.2005
- 30.04.2009
Purpose of research: Applied research
The primary focus of SEEDSOURCE is to communicate, to people who use trees (e.g. foresters, farmers, conservationists), the necessary information on germplasm sourcing and utilisation to ensure that harvested systems use the best adapted material, that maximises production and profit, without eroding genetic diversity; and that regenerative projects adopt strategies that maximise the recruitment potential of natural systems to maintain ecosystem diversity and their long term adaptive potential. The project aims to provide sourcing and utilisation information for 50 of the most socio-economically important tree species in each of the Central and South American tropics (chosen based on extensive socio-economic survey and literature and after consultation with end users and stake holders during the initial startup phase of the project). These guidelines will be based on criteria and indicators developed from experimental project data of 12 study species for which studies on adaptive variation, genetic diversity, gene flow and regenerative capacity are combined with available background information and interpreted using meta-data analysis and simulation modelling procedures. Using this integrated approach, SEED-SOURCE will provide best practice policies for sourcing germplasm for reforestation within a range of degraded land-scapes (logged forest, fragmented stands, degraded secondary forest and remnant trees isolated in abandoned farm land), and for trees with a range of lifestyles (pioneer or forest dependent) that are key components of a di-verse ecosystem composition. This information will be individually tailored and targeted for uptake by different for-estry and farming stakeholders (e.g. international and national policy makers, seed banks, forest management certifiers, con-servationists, educators and extension workers dealing directly with farmers).
Section overview
Subjects
- Silviculture
- Forest genetics
- Climate Change
