High richness and dense seeding enhance grassland restoration establishment but have little effect on drought response

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1308-1319

  Carter, Daniel L ^a   Blair, John M ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diversity; Drought; Invasive; Prairie; Priority effects; Rainfall manipulation; Recovery; Resilience; Resistance; Restoration; Stability

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARABLE LAND; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; PRIORITIZATION; RAINFALL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DROUGHTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NEBRASKA; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SEEDS;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862999014     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1970.1     Document Type: Article

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