The importance of habitat selection for the reintroduction of the endangered Salix lapponum L. in eastern Poland

We present a procedure for selecting and verifying the optimal location for establishing a new population of the relict species Salix lapponum in eastern Poland. We aimed to demonstrate the importance of an approach combining the results of multifaceted analyses with the subjective experience and judgment of a practitioner. We began by selecting 30 historically known sites of the species and chose the optimal one for the reintroduction process....