Relative effects of seed mix design, consumer pressure, and edge proximity on community structure in restored prairies.

ABSTRACT: A central goal of ecosystem restoration is to promote diverse, native-dominated plant communities. However, restoration outcomes can be highly variable. One cause of this variation may be the decisions made during the seed mix design process, such as choosing the number of species to include (sown diversity) or the number of locations each species should be sourced from (source diversity, manipulated to affect genetic diversity). The effects that seed mixes have on plant communities may be further modified by other factors at the restoration site, including edge proximity and consumer pressure. Few studies have evaluated both these seed mix attributes together, and none have done so while accounting for realistic restoration site attributes. To address this research need, we conducted a pr

SUBMITTER: Pizza RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11744057 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature