Unfriendly neighbors: When facilitation does not contribute to restoration success in tidal marsh.

ABSTRACT: Large-scale restoration projects are an exciting and often untapped opportunity to use an experimental approach to inform ecosystem management and test ecological theory. In our $10M tidal marsh restoration project, we installed over 17,000 high marsh plants to increase cover and diversity, using these plantings in a large-scale experiment to test the benefits of clustering and soil amendments across a stress gradient. Clustered plantings have the potential to outperform widely spaced ones if plants alter conditions in ways that decrease stress for close neighbors. Here, we test whether intraspecific facilitation improves restoration outcomes using a suite of seven high marsh species native to central California salt marshes. We also applied a biochar treatment to test whether soil amendme

SUBMITTER: Tanner KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11744494 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature