Scientific works converge toward the importance of using seeds of local origin in restoration to limit biodiversity loss and increase ecosystem resilience. Efforts are made to define what should be considered as local seeds. However, the concept of local seeds remains complex to delimit both scientifically and operationally, and carries non‐neutral assumptions that impact restoration activities. This article aims to unravel the concept by examining its construction using a social science approach crossed with ecology. The interest for the genetic origin of plant material has developed since the 1990–2000s, in a context of international debates on biodiversity conservation. The delimitation of the local seeds concept necessarily integrates paradoxical assumptions: one of the major ones is that the local character of a plant is relative to both the reference ecosystem and the species considered. Moreover, it also depends on the objectives of restoration, the feasibility of the chosen method for restoration and the regulations. To overcome these paradoxes, compromises and translations are made to delineate collectively and operationally what is local. By adding a cross perspective between social sciences and restoration ecology to the debate, we highlight that the constructions of the local seeds concept integrate a diversity of ecological, sociotechnical, and economic assumptions that are not neutral for restoration. This perspective on the concept, its ambiguities, and its contingencies leads us to to underline the importance of reflexive and integrative approaches to work at different scales on standards for the use of local seeds in restoration.

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揭示恢复生态学中本地种子的概念

科研工作趋向于使用本地种子进行恢复以限制生物多样性丧失和提高生态系统适应力的重要性。努力定义应该视为本地种子的内容。但是，本地种子的概念仍然很复杂，难以在科学和操作上进行界定，并且带有影响恢复活动的非中性假设。本文旨在通过使用与生态交叉的社会科学方法来研究其构想，以阐明其构想。自1990-2000年代以来，在关于生物多样性保护的国际辩论的背景下，人们对植物材料的遗传起源产生了兴趣。本地种子概念的定界必定包含了矛盾的假设：主要特征之一是植物的局部特性既与参考生态系统又与所考虑的物种相关。此外，还取决于恢复的目标，选择的恢复方法的可行性和法规。为了克服这些悖论，做出折衷和翻译，以集体地和在操作上描述当地的情况。通过在辩论中增加社会科学与恢复生态学之间的交叉视角，我们强调了本地种子概念的构建融合了对恢复不是中立的生态，社会技术和经济假设的多样性。对概念的这种观点及其模糊性