The effects of management on vegetation trajectories during the early-stage restoration of previously arable land after hay transfer.

ABSTRACT: The restoration of floodplain grasslands has benefited from many studies of the underlying mechanisms. Among the operational tools that resulted, hay transfer is now used increasingly to alleviate the effects of limited seed dispersal and recruitment. To improve this method, we still need to understand how it can affect restoration trajectories, and particularly their direction and magnitude during the early stages of restoration. Based on concepts from the field of community ecology theory, we investigated the effects of early-stage management through grazing or mowing on restoration trajectories after soil harrowing and hay transfer. We established a randomized block design experiment and quantified several community-related metrics to formalize restoration trajectories for 3 years after

SUBMITTER: Garrouj M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6953687 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature