Seed production project produces translocation spin off for a highly threatened species

Temperate native grasslands and grassy woodlands are among Australia's most threatened plant communities and include many individual species that are highly threatened. Among barriers to retaining threatened communities and species are scarcity of source populations, lack of seed resources, intense competition from weed species and unsuitable disturbance or management regimes. Encouragingly, restoration (particularly by direct seeding) is now perceived as a technically feasible means to restore complex communities and/or re-establish populations of threatened species (e.g. Gibson-Roy et al. 2010). An important component of these new techniques is the use of seed production to supply appropriate quantities of seed for restoration.