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Plant reintroductions include labor-intensive, costly, and time-consuming work and often cannot guarantee a successful outcome. In order to maximize the chances of success, it is therefore of utmost importance to appropriately select target species, release site, cultivation and reintroduction methodology, and management technique of the out-planting site. Case studies, best practice and experiences of plant reintroductions are however not sufficiently disseminated to the plant conservation community, most often remaining in unpublished internal reports to which access is difficult. We suggest that this is a major problem for conservationists and it requires the establishment of a framework for rapid and effective broadcasting of information on plant reintroduction programs. We propose a set of variables for a centralized web-based interface which could provide the necessary information in a standardized and accessible form.
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Godefroid, S., Vanderborght, T. Plant reintroductions: the need for a global database. Biodivers Conserv 20, 3683–3688 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-011-0120-2
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