Does the reduction of seed dormancy during ex situ cultivation affect the germination and establishment of plants reintroduced into the wild?

1. Plants or seeds produced in botanic gardens or nurseries have become an important source of plant material for reintroductions or population reinforcements. However, recent research has shown that these living collections bear the risk of being genetically impoverished and adapted to the artificial habitat. In particular, many studies have reported a decline of seed dormancy during ex situ cultivation, which may compromise their suitability for reintroduction programs. However, the impact of those ex situ-derived changes on the germination and establishment of reintroduced plant populations is still unclear.
2. We studied the germination behaviour, population establishment and plant fitness over three years of reintroduced plants of the short-lived perennial Digitalis lutea, comparing plants grown from (1) a 30-year botanic garden population, (2) seeds from a seed bank representing the initial starting point of the botanic garden culture, and (3) a re-sampled corresponding wild popu..., The data is divided into 5 datasets:
1: germination_lab: is the germination rates of seeds of Digitalis lutea germinated in Petri dishes. Germination is calculated per Petri dish in percentage
2: germination_outdoor: is the germination of seeds of Digitalis lutea in outdoor pots after outdoor overwintering of the seeds in pots. Germination is a ratio (from 0 to 1).
3: germination_field: is the germination of seeds of Digitalis lutea in the field in iron rings pushed into the ground. Germination is a ratio (from 0 to 1). 
4: performance_transplantation: is the performance of Digitalis lutea plants transplanted into three different sites and survival and performance (and flowering) measured over three consecutive years (2017-2019).
5: total_fitness_aggregated: is the TotalFit is the cummulative flower number as calculated by Leverich & Levin 1979 and as called total fitness in these analyses. TotalFit has been calculated from the performance_transplantation file and is aggregated on t...,