Conservation biology Dominant wetland plants as drivers of productivity and diversityand as restoration targets THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON Joy B. Zedler DohertyJames MRestoration projects in urban wetlands are often confronted with hydrologic disturbance, high nutrient inputs, and invasive ...
Hyperspectral Response of Dominant Plants in the Poyang Lake Wetlands to Heavy Metal PollutionWetland degradation is a global environmental problem. Among the various factors affecting wetland degradation, heavy metal pollution is a major threat.
Tracking changes in the variety and abundance of different plants in the same locations over time, the researchers found that the dominant non-natives are not just choking out many other plants. They also have a broad ecological footprint, taking over wetlands on a regional level, rather than ...
Comparing initial microbial communities to the soil microbial communities under and between dominant woody plants along secondary successional gradients (hereafter “microbial dissimilarity between stages”; e.g., differences between microbes in meadows and microbes under shrubs/trees v.s. differences ...
A few dominant species of plants often disproportionately contribute to primary production; however, dominance has an underappreciated influence on ecosystem processes and functioning. Cascading impacts of dominant species have been documented in ecosystems undergoing eutrophication, but competitive exclusion may...
Dominant species in wetlands: Wetlands are waterlogged conditions that are dominated either by herbaceous plants or by woody plants. In marshy areas, grasses, reeds, and cattails are dominant. In the wetlands of North America, the non-native purple loosestrife is a dominant species over other sma...
Van der Valk A.G., Bremholm T.L. & Gordon E. 1999. The restoration of sedge meadows: seed viability, seed germination requirements, and seedling growth ofCarexspecies. Wetlands19:756-764.10.1007/BF03161782Search in Google Scholar Van der Valk A.G. & Pederson R.L. 1989. Seed banks and...
AM host plants predominated, with other mycorrhizal types present at lower abundance. During the LGM, the shares of AM plants decreased while the shares of ECM plants and NM plants increased. In the post-LGM climatic period, the proportions of AM and ERM plants decreased, while the shares of...
streams and wetlands, were used to determine the potential location of water. Land tenure for Victoria, which differentiates land in terms of ownership was also used55. Land tenure is recorded in many categories but for this project they were amalgamated to form four broad categories: private lan...
A few dominant species of plants often disproportionately contribute to primary production; however, dominance has an underappreciated influence on ecosyst