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Species diversity and dispersal traits alter biodiversity spillover in reconstructed grasslands.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Sperry, K. P. & Hilfer, H. & Lane, I. & Petersen, J. & Dixon, P. M. & Sullivan, L. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Grasslands are among the planet's most imperilled ecosystems, largely because habitat conversion has caused extreme biodiversity loss. In response, ma...

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Seed dispersal and recruitment limitation are barriers to native recolonization of old-fields in western Australia.

Published online: 02 May 2007

Authors: Standish, R. J. & Cramer, V. A. & Wild, S. L. & Hobbs, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Native recolonization of abandoned farmland in the wheat-growing region of western Australia is slow to non-existent, even 45 years after abandonment....

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Tree regeneration in a subtropical humid forest: effect of cultural disturbance on seed production, dispersal and germination.

Published online: 19 May 1997

Authors: Barik, S. K. & Tripathi, R. S. & Pandey, H. N. & Rao, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The subtropical humid forest of Meghalaya (India) has been exposed to various kinds of disturbance of varying magnitude during recent years; felling o...

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Does increasing the diversity of seeds broadcast for restoration alter post-dispersal seed predation and its community-determining effects?

Published online: 22 Oct 2023

Authors: Drescher, B. J. & Nolan, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Native seeds broadcast for restoration are often consumed by predators before they can germinate. However, it is unclear how the composition of a seed...

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Dispersal and establishment limitation slows plant community recovery in post-agricultural longleaf pine savannas.

Published online: 11 Oct 2017

Authors: Turley, N. E. & Orrock, J. L. & Ledvina, J. A. & Brudvig, L. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Abandoned agricultural lands often have distinct plant communities from areas with no history of agriculture because plant species fail to recolonize....

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Individual study: uncleaned crop seed sowing as a tool to conserve Bromus grossus and restore species-rich arable-dependent plant communities.

Published online: 12 Mar 2020

Authors: Piqueray, J. & Gilliaux, V. & Gaillard, T. & Mahy, G. & Delescaille, L. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

Segetal plants, which grow preferentially or exclusively in cereal fields, experienced a strong decline during the last century. Among them, Bromus gr...

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Restoration of plant diversity in permanent grassland by seeding: assessing the limiting factors along land-use gradients.

Published online: 02 Oct 2021

Authors: Freitag, M. & Klaus, V. H. & Bolliger, R. & Hamer, U. & Kleinebecker, T. & Prati, D. & Schäfer, D. & Hölzel, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Land-use intensification has caused dramatic declines in grassland biodiversity, and in Europe this decline has not yet been halted. Therefore, a majo...

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Degree of intervention affects interannual and within-plot heterogeneity of seed arrival in tropical forest restoration.

Published online: 07 Oct 2021

Authors: Werden, L. K. & Holl, K. D. & Chaves-Fallas, J. M. & Oviedo-Brenes, F. & Rosales, J. A. & Zahawi, R. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In degraded tropical landscapes, lack of seed dispersal can strongly limit recovery, and restoration interventions can overcome this barrier by attrac...

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Implications of overfishing of frugivorous fishes for cryptic function loss in a neotropical floodplain.

Published online: 22 Jul 2021

Authors: Araujo, J. M. & Correa, S. B. & Penha, J. & Anderson, J. & Traveset, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many frugivorous animals act simultaneously as seed predators and dispersers, and shifts in the abundance and mean phenotype of the frugivore populati...

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Seed banks and propagule dispersal in crested wheatgrass stands.

Published online: 22 Jul 1986

Authors: Marlette, G. M. & Anderson, J. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

4 sites in SE Idaho previously sown to Agropyron cristatum were compared with adjacent native plant communities. Sites 1 and 2 were essentially monocu...

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