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Plant Functional Types Across Dune Fixation Stages in the Chinese Steppe Zone and Their Applicability for Restoration of the Desertified Land

Plant and Vegetation, 2012
Desertification is among the most serious environmental and socio-economic problems in the world. In northern China, aeolian desertification has resulted in dunes in the Chinese steppe zone. It is not only an issue of ecological and environmental problems, but also of social economic problems, which lead to soil erosion, degradation of vegetation ...
Guo-Fang Liu, Ming Dong, Xuehua Ye
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Fertilization and plant diversity accelerate primary succession and restoration of dune communities

Plant Ecology, 2013
Plant species richness can increase primary production because plants occupy different niches or facilitate each other (“complementarity effects”) or because diverse mixtures have a greater chance of having more productive species (“selection effects”). To determine how complementarity and selection influence dune restoration, we established four types
Zachary T. Long, Stephen R. Fegley, Charles H. Peterson   +2 more
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Grazing of Panicum amarum in a Louisiana barrier island dune plant community: Management implications for dune restoration projects

Ocean & Coastal Management, 1994
Abstract Panicum amarum (bitter panicum), an economically important dune grass used in dune building and stabilization projects throughout the southeastern United States, was planted in protected (exclosed) and unprotected (unexclosed) plots to assess the importance of vertebrate herbivory on P.
Mark W. Hester, Brian J. Wilsey, Irving A. Mendelssohn   +2 more
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Early development of vegetation in restored dune plant microhabitats on a nourished beach at Ocean City, New Jersey

Journal of Coastal Conservation, 2001
Topography and vegetation of restored dunes on a developed barrier island were examined after a large-scale beach nourishment project. Restoration began in 1993 using sand-trapping fences andAmmophila breviligulata Fern. plantings. Subsequent growth of dunes was favored by installing new fences and suspending beach raking to accommodate nesting birds ...
A. L. Freestone, K. F. Nordstrom
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Can ecological restoration improve soil properties and plant growth in valley-slope sand dunes on southern Tibetan Plateau?

Physical Geography, 2020
Global warming poses a serious threat to the alpine grassland on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecological restoration is an effective measure for adapting to climate change and controlling desertification.
Chengrui Liao, Haidong Li, Guoping Lv, Jiarong Tian, Bo Liu, Meirong Tian, Guangyong You, Yannan Xu   +7 more
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Facilitation and sand burial affect plant survival during restoration of a tropical coastal sand dune degraded by tourist cars

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, Wolfgang Weisser, Gislene Ganade   +2 more
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Impacts of artificially planted vegetation on the ecological restoration of movable sand dunes in the Mugetan Desert, northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

International Journal of Sediment Research, 2017
Abstract Controlling desertification is an important ecological target for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China, where studies on impacts of vegetation restoration measures on sandy soil improvement are still lacking. The Mugetan Desert in Guinan County, Qinghai Province, northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a representative ecological restoration ...
Yanfu Li, Zhiwei Li, Zhaoyin Wang, Wenlong Wang, Yanhong Jia, Shimin Tian   +5 more
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Native soil microbial amendments generate trade‐offs in plant productivity, diversity, and soil stability in coastal dune restorations

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, Michelle H. Busch, Hannah Locke, Noah C. Luecke   +3 more
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Artemisia halodendron litters have strong negative allelopathic effects on earlier successional plants during vegetation restoration in a semi-arid sandy dune region in China

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 “killed” and replaced the latter during the naturally vegetation succession in ...
Zhong Du, Yongqing Luo, Zhiqiang Yan, Xueyong Zhao, Yuqiang Li, Yue Yang, Mai-He Li   +6 more
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Two Decades of Dune Slack Restoration in North Wales: Diversity, Community and Habitat Specialists [PDF]

Nordic Journal of Botany
Humid dunes slacks are a highly threatened habitat, listed as vulnerable in the EU habitat red list. Accelerated successional processes in dune systems have resulted in the loss and degradation of ideal conditions for specialist dune slack species, hence
Paul Ashton, Michelle L Davis, Nicola Johansen   +2 more
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