Successful recovery of native plants post-invasive removal in forest understories is driven by native community features.

ABSTRACT: Temperate forest understories hold the majority of the plant diversity present in these ecosystems and play an essential role in the recruitment and establishment of native trees. However, the long-term persistence of diverse and functional forest understories is threatened by the impacts of invasive plants. As a result, a common practice is the removal of the agent of invasion. Despite this, we know little about the success of these practices and lack a comprehensive understanding of what intrinsic and extrinsic factors shape the recovery. In a multiyear field experiment, we investigated (Q1) whether native propagule availability drove native community recovery, (Q2) what the characteristics of successfully recovering communities were, and (Q3) under which environmental conditions native

SUBMITTER: Petri L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11874164 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature