Ecologists with a burning desire to protect forests have grim news for the western United States.
Tag - restoration
Dale Maylea
Eurekalert
Ants can be the villains of conservation
Invasive ants can stop visitors from properly pollinating native plants, damaging their chances of reproduction.
Photochemical performance of bunchgrass reproductive structures
How does drought influence the photochemical performance of reproductive structures of native and exotic bunchgrasses of the Great Basin?
William Salter
Trees alone will not save us
There's more recognition that ecological restoration can be an essential tool in fighting climate change, and there are many projects aimed at restoring degraded forests to capture carbon. Still, the focus on forests...
Alun Salt
Variation in reproduction and genetic diversity across seagrass meadows in Western Australia
How do reproductive effort, genetic diversity and mating systems vary across the range of a seagrass population?
View from the sky sees new hope for restoring degraded forests
Degraded tropical forests are not lost causes. Restoration could help capture carbon and aid ecosystem recovery.
Orchid conservation must be guided by an understanding of their ecology
What makes orchids unique can also make saving them a challenge.
Erin Zimmerman
When speed is a problem in mangrove restoration
Rapid restoration isn't always the best restoration, when the restoring species is invasive.
Even a small change in topography can help tides drive an oxygen pump
For pioneer species in the marshes, it's a case of grow fast or die young. But the differences in growth speed can be caused by tiny changes in geography.
Simulating ephemeral seagrass growth
Ephemeral seagrasses provide important marine habitats, but are under threat due to human activity. Whitehead et al. develop a new functional-structural environmentally dependant model, in order to integrate existing...
botanyone
Ghost orchid symbiotic seed germination
Successful orchid germination, embryo development and seedling establishment require the presence of mycorrhizal fungi. However, little is known about the orchid seed germination niche requirements in situ, especially...
Seed germination of seven desert plants and implications for vegetation restoration
Germination cues reflect the conditions under which a species is likely to succeed in recruitment. In a recent study published in AoB PLANTS, Lai et al. evaluated the seed germination responses of seven desert species...
AoBPLANTS
The ‘natural’ solution might not be best when your wildlife isn’t natural
Many ecosystems have been degraded or modified, and these are the sorts of systems you target for restoration. But when a system has been altered so much the original species might not be the best choice to bring it...
Variable seed dormancy and germination in Hibbertia
Several ecologically important plant families in Mediterranean biomes have seeds with morphophysiological dormancy. Hidayati et al. study four species of the intractably dormant Australian genus Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae)...
