Calcicole-calcifuge plant strategies limit restoration potential in a regional semi-arid flora.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To examine calcicole and calcifuge plant strategies, as well as nutrient-acquisition strategies, as drivers of the distribution of species in response to edaphic factors, and the degree to which these strategies may act as filters to species establishment in ecological restoration on heavily altered or reconstructed substrates.

Location

An 82,000-ha area within a major mining province in the Mid-West region of Western Australia, harboring vegetation communities ranging from species-poor halophytic scrub on saline flats to dense biodiverse shrubland on the skeletal soils of ancient Banded Ironstone Formations (BIF).

Methods

Univariate and multivariate analyses were employed to examine how variation in soil chemistry and landscape position (undulating plains, slopes

SUBMITTER: Cross AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8207153 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature