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Abiotic legacies mediate plant-soil feedback during early vegetation succession on rare earth element mine tailings.

Published online: 19 Jun 2024

Authors: Zhu ShiChen & Liu WenShen & Chen ZiWu & Liu XiaoRui & Zheng HongXiang & Chen BoYu & Zhi XinYu & Chao YuanQing & Qiu RongLiang & Chu ChengJin & Liu Chong & Morel, J. L. & Ent, A. van der & Tang YeTao

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

An increasing number of studies have shown how feedback interactions between plants and soil can influence primary and secondary succession. However, ...

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Ecology of tin tailings areas: plant communities and their succession.

Published online: 01 Jan 1974

Authors: Palaniappan, V. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The pioneer community on sand tailings areas in W. Malaysia contained a number of grasses and legumes, including Tricholaena rosea [= Rhynchelytrum re...

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Suppression of reed canarygrass by assisted succession: a sixteen-year restoration experiment.

Published online: 01 Nov 2024

Authors: Palacio-Lopez, K. & Hovick, S. M. & Mattingly, K. Z. & Weston, L. M. & Hofford, N. P. & Finley, L. & Tayal, A. & Reinartz, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Assisted succession could enable long-term restoration where successional trajectories stall due to competition from invasive plants. Many invasives a...

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Special Profile: River restoration.

Published online: 25 May 2005

Authors: Giller, P. S.

Content type: Journal issue

This special issue contains 6 papers entitled: Standards for ecologically successful river restoration; Stating mechanisms and refining criteria for e...

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Long-term effects of water level drawdown on the vegetation of drained pine mires in southern Finland.

Published online: 24 Apr 1996

Authors: Laine, J. & Vasander, H. & Laiho, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effect of water level drawdown after drainage of mires for forestry was studied by comparing the vegetation on undrained pine [Pinus sylvestris]-m...

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Revegetation of an Arctic disturbed site by native tundra species.

Published online: 01 Jan 1981

Authors: Chapin, F. S., III & Chapin, M. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Succession on an organic tundra soil in interior Alaska was monitored for 10 growing seasons following removal of vegetation. Exotic grasses (reed can...

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Population dynamics of Eupatorium odoratum in successional environments following slash and burn agriculture.

Published online: 01 Jan 1982

Authors: Kushwaha, S. P. S. & Ramakrishnan, P. S. & Tripathi, R. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Recruitment, mortality, population flux and reproductive efficiency of Eupatorium odoratum was investigated in plant successions occurring after slash...

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The traditional management of European heathlands.

Published online: 08 Jul 1999

Authors: Webb, N. R.

Content type: Conference paper; Journal article

Throughout western Europe heathlands dominated by ericaceous subshrubs occur on poor soils. Mostly, these heaths have developed and have been maintain...

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Convergence and divergence in plant community trajectories as a framework for monitoring wetland restoration progress.

Published online: 29 Sep 2010

Authors: Matthews, J. W. & Spyreas, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Environmental policies that use ecological restoration to offset the destruction of natural ecosystems assume that restorations readily compensate for...

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Successional trends in Floristic Quality.

Published online: 18 Apr 2012

Authors: Spyreas, G. & Meiners, S. J. & Matthews, J. W. & Molano-Flores, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Simple, conservation-relevant, plant community measures are sought by resource managers. In this context, the use of Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA...

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