Seeding Method Influences Warm-Season Grass Abundance and Distribution but not Local Diversity in Grassland Restoration

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dc.contributor.author Yurkonis, Kathryn
dc.contributor.author Wilsey, Brian
dc.contributor.author Wilsey, Brian
dc.contributor.author Moloney, Kirk
dc.contributor.author Drobney, Pauline
dc.contributor.author Larson, Diane
dc.contributor.department Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
dc.date 2018-02-17T18:21:48.000
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-30T02:16:40Z
dc.date.available 2020-06-30T02:16:40Z
dc.date.issued 2010-11-01
dc.description.abstract <p><strong>Ecological theory predicts that the arrangement of seedlings in newly restored communities may influence future species diversity and composition. We test the prediction that smaller distances between neighboring seeds in drill seeded grassland plantings would result in lower species diversity, greater weed abundance, and larger conspecific patch sizes than otherwise similar broadcast seeded plantings. A diverse grassland seed mix was either drill seeded, which places seeds in equally spaced rows, or broadcast seeded, which spreads seeds across the ground surface, into 24 plots in each of three sites in 2005. In summer 2007, we measured species abundance in a 1 m<sup>2</sup> quadrat in each plot and mapped common species within the quadrat by recording the most abundant species in each of 64 cells. Quadrat-scale diversity and weed abundance were similar between drilled and broadcast plots, suggesting that processes that limited establishment and controlled invasion were not affected by such fine-scale seed distribution. However, native warm-season (C<sub>4</sub>) grasses were more abundant and occurred in less compact patches in drilled plots. This difference in C<sub>4</sub> grass abundance and distribution may result from increased germination or vegetative propagation of C<sub>4</sub> grasses in drilled plots. Our findings suggest that local plant density may control fine-scale heterogeneity and species composition in restored grasslands, processes that need to be further investigated to determine whether seed distributions can be manipulated to increase diversity in restored grasslands.</strong></p>
dc.description.comments <p>This article is from <em>Restoration Ecology </em>18 (2010): 344, doi: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00617.x" target="_blank">10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00617.x</a>. </p>
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dc.source.uri 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00617.x
dc.subject.disciplines Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
dc.subject.disciplines Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
dc.subject.disciplines Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology
dc.subject.keywords broadcast seeding
dc.subject.keywords drill seeding
dc.subject.keywords grassland restoration
dc.subject.keywords heterogeneity
dc.subject.keywords invasion
dc.subject.keywords reconstruction
dc.subject.keywords slot seeding
dc.subject.keywords spatial pattern
dc.subject.keywords tallgrass prairie
dc.title Seeding Method Influences Warm-Season Grass Abundance and Distribution but not Local Diversity in Grassland Restoration
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