Seed limitation represents a fundamental constraint to the restoration of native plant
communities, and practitioners often apply seed additions to overcome this barrier …

Plant vendors generate a commercial species pool, the subset of species in a regional flora
that is purchasable. The availability of plant species from commercial vendors can influence …

Questions Are community‐weighted plant functional traits related to the 'fast–slow'growth
rate continuum different in seed mixes, restored and reference prairies? If so, then what are …

Native seed vendors are a primary source of germplasm for restoration projects; however,
most plant species are not commercially available. Preferences in the types of species that …

ABSTRACT The midwestern United States has a well-developed native plant industry with a
wide variety of native seed mixes available to buyers, often for the purpose of ecological …

Open forests of savanna and woodlands span the spectrum between closed canopy forests
and treeless grasslands, and therefore contain structure, composition, and function …

Savanna plant communities are highly diverse, characterized by an open-canopy structure
with a rich herbaceous understory, and maintained by frequent low-intensity fire and …

Tallgrass prairies have virtually disappeared in many parts of their former range due to the
conversion of this ecosystem to farmland. In more recent years there have been efforts to …