Open letter: A call to integrate plant regeneration into sustainability science and policy

This Open Letter highlights plant regeneration as a critical and overlooked dimension of ecosystem resilience under global environmental change. Biodiversity monitoring, conservation and agricultural assessments typically focus on adult plant performance and vegetative growth, yet the processes that enable plants to reproduce and establish new individuals—pollination, seed production, germination and seedling establishment—often remain poorly monitored. Failures during these stages can silently undermine ecosystem recovery, restoration success, species conservation and crop productivity. We call for integrating regeneration processes into ecological monitoring, climate risk assessments and policy frameworks to better safeguard biodiversity, ecosystem services, food security and long‐term ecosystem resilience.