Ancient grasslands guide ambitious goals in grassland restoration

E Buisson, S Archibald, A Fidelis, KN Suding - Science, 2022 - science.org
Grasslands, which constitute almost 40% of the terrestrial biosphere, provide habitat for a
great diversity of animals and plants and contribute to the livelihoods of more than 1 billion …

The present and future of grassland restoration

P Török, LA Brudvig, J Kollmann, JN Price… - Restoration …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Grasslands contribute greatly to biodiversity and human livelihoods; they support 70% of the
world's agricultural area, but are heavily degraded by human land use. Grassland …

Restoration ecology through the lens of coexistence theory

LM Hallett, L Aoyama, G Barabás, B Gilbert… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Advances in restoration ecology are needed to guide ecological restoration in a variable
and changing world. Coexistence theory provides a framework for how variability in …

Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India

AN Nerlekar, A Munje, P Mhaisalkar… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The consequences of land‐use change for savanna biodiversity remain undocumented in
most regions of tropical Asia. One such region is western Maharashtra, India, where old …

Community assembly history alters relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions during restoration

CP Catano, AM Groves, LA Brudvig - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning depend on the processes
structuring community assembly. However, predicting biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning …

Planting time, first‐year mowing, and seed mix design influence ecological outcomes in agroecosystem revegetation projects

AJ Glidden, ME Sherrard, JC Meissen… - Restoration …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The conversion of tallgrass prairie to agriculture has negatively affected provisioning of
ecosystem services. Successful restoration of ecosystem services could depend on …

Where should they come from? Where should they go? Several measures of seed source locality fail to predict plant establishment in early prairie restorations

RB Pizza, J Foster, LA Brudvig - Ecological Solutions and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
During the “decade on restoration,” we must understand how to reliably re‐establish native
plant populations. When establishing populations through seed addition, practitioners often …

Priority effects and competitive exclusion by C4 grasses on longleaf pine savanna restoration sites

JE Freeman, LB Trotta - Restoration Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
On grassland and savanna restoration sites, planted native C4 grasses can competitively
exclude other co‐introduced plant functional groups, with negative implications for …

Native species identity drives plant community growth and biotic resistance

EV Feldman, TE Walsworth… - Applied Vegetation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Questions Understanding drivers of biotic resistance has important implications for
ecological restoration. Two potential drivers of biotic resistance that restoration practitioners …

Pyrus calleryana extracts reduce germination of native grassland species, suggesting the potential for allelopathic effects during ecological invasion

MJ Woods, JT Bauer, D Schaeffer, RW McEwan - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Invasive plant species' success may be a result of allelopathy, or the release of secondary
metabolites that are harmful for surrounding plant species. Allelopathy can be mediated …