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The importance of pilot studies and understanding microhabitat requirements when reintroducing endemic plants during coastal dune restoration [PDF]
Journal of Coastal Conservation, 2019 In coastal California dune ecosystems protect coastal cities from damaging storms and provide habitat for native wildlife. Despite the economic and ecological importance of coastal dunes, habitat loss has continued and is predicted to accelerate with a changing climate.
Justin C. Luong +2 more
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Restoration Ecology, 2018 Invasive plants create refuge habitat for predators that results in increased levels of seed predation on native plants. We test the effects of a large‐scale removal of the invasive plant Ammophila arenaria on the predispersal seed predation rate experienced by an endangered plant in a coastal dune ecosystem. Restoration resulted in a large and lasting
Eleanor A. Pardini +3 more
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, 2020 <p><em>Artemisia halodendron</em> Turcz. ex Besser occurs following the appearance of a pioneer species, <em>Agriophyllum squarrosum</em> (L.) Moq., and the former &#8220;killed&#8221; and replaced the latter during the naturally vegetation succession in ...
Zhong Du +6 more
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The colonization of active sand dunes by rhizomatous plants through vegetative propagation and its role in vegetation restoration [PDF]
Ecological Engineering, 2012 Abstract This study aims to elucidate vegetative propagation in Phragmites communis , and its role in colonizing active sand dunes. The experiment was conducted in the Horqin Sand Land in Inner Mongolia, northeastern China. Quadrats were established along twenty transects from the dune slack to the windward slope through the ecotone (a transitional ...
Liu, Bo, Liu, Zhimin, Wang, Lixin
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Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2012 Abstract Exogenous application of plant growth regulators (PGRs) may be an effective technique for increasing the rooting ability and the growth of vegetative fragments (cuttings) of plants used in dune restoration programs. Various concentrations (0, 50 and 100 mg l −1 ) of two auxins, alpha-naphtaleneacetic acid (NAA) and indole-3-butyric acid (IBA)
BALESTRI, ELENA +3 more
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Facilitation and sand burial affect plant survival during restoration of a tropical coastal sand dune degraded by tourist cars [PDF]
Restoration Ecology, 2016 Coastal sand dunes support various ecosystem services, including storm protection and tourism. Restoration programs are often critical to preserve this ecosystem due to its fragility and high degree of degradation. Dune restoration still suffers from a general lack of knowledge of the ecological processes controlling tropical dune communities.
Leonardo H. Teixeira +2 more
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Native soil microbial amendments generate trade‐offs in plant productivity, diversity, and soil stability in coastal dune restorations [PDF]
Restoration Ecology, 2019 Given the important role that soil microbes play in structuring plant communities and mediating ecosystem functions, there is growing interest in harnessing microbial communities to restore degraded ecosystems. Dune restorations, in particular, may benefit from native soil amendments because microbial diversity and abundance are very low in unvegetated
Kerri M. Crawford +3 more
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Constraints to native plant species establishment in coastal dune communities invaded by Carpobrotus edulis: Implications for restoration [PDF]
Biological Conservation, 2013 Carpobrotus edulis, an alien chamaephyte species from South Africa, severely invades and represents one of the greatest threats to coastal plant biodiversity in regions with Mediterranean climate worldwide. Although actions have been promoted to eliminate it, these efforts have failed to restore dunes to the natural, preinvasion stage.
Ana Novoa +3 more
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