Seed enhancement: getting seeds restoration‐ready

S Pedrini, A Balestrazzi, MD Madsen… - Restoration …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Seed enhancement technologies such as seed priming and seed coating, developed by the
agricultural seed industry, are standard procedures for the majority of crop and horticultural …

Leveraging the value of conservation physiology for ecological restoration

S Tomlinson, EP Tudor, SR Turner, S Cross… - Restoration …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The incorporation of conservation physiology into environmental management, particularly
ecological restoration, is underutilized, despite the capacity of such approaches to discern …

Native bacteria and cyanobacteria can influence seedling emergence and growth of native plants used in dryland restoration

FA Dadzie, AT Moles, TE Erickson… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Seed‐based ecosystem restoration has huge potential to restore degraded drylands.
However, fewer than 10% of directly sown seeds transition to established seedlings. One of …

Benefits of adopting seed-based technologies for rehabilitation in the mining sector: a Pilbara perspective

TE Erickson, M Muñoz-Rojas… - Australian Journal of …, 2017 - CSIRO Publishing
The use of native plant seeds is fundamental to large-scale rehabilitation and the re-
establishment of self-sustaining ecosystems after high-impact mining activity has ceased …

Seed traits inform the germination niche for biodiverse ecological restoration

EL Dalziell, W Lewandrowski… - Seed Science and …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
Seeds are a primary source for generating plants for large-scale restoration and
understanding the requirements for seed germination and establishment is fundamental to …

Seed dormancy alleviation by warm stratification progressively widens the germination window in Mediterranean climate Rutaceae

M Just, AT Cross, W Lewandrowski… - Australian Journal of …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Context In ecosystems where rainfall is episodic or highly seasonal, plant recruitment from a
soil-stored seed bank occurs during periods of elevated soil moisture conducive to …

Global change impacts on arid zone ecosystems: Seedling establishment processes are threatened by temperature and water stress

W Lewandrowski, JC Stevens, BL Webber… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recruitment for many arid‐zone plant species is expected to be impacted by the projected
increase in soil temperature and prolonged droughts associated with global climate change …

Field-deployed extruded seed pellets show promise for perennial grass establishment in arid zone mine rehabilitation

E Stock, RJ Standish, M Muñoz-Rojas… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Current methods of mine rehabilitation in the arid zone have a high failure rate at seedling
emergence largely due to limited availability of topsoil and low water-holding capacity of …

The risk-takers and-avoiders: germination sensitivity to water stress in an arid zone with unpredictable rainfall

C Duncan, NL Schultz, MK Good, W Lewandrowski… - AoB Plants, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Water availability is a critical driver of population dynamics in arid zones, and plant
recruitment is typically episodic in response to rainfall. Understanding species' germination …

Seed‐enhancement combinations improve germination and handling in two dominant native grass species

B Berto, AL Ritchie, TE Erickson - Restoration Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The use of native grasses for both restoration and commercial purposes is becoming
increasingly important globally. Many native grasses have limited success in seed‐based …