One of ecology's grand challenges is develo** general rules to explain and predict highly
complex systems. Understanding and predicting ecological processes from species' traits …

Restoring vegetation in degraded ecosystems is an increasingly common practice for
promoting biodiversity and ecological function, but successful implementation is hampered …

Ecological restoration is a multibillion dollar industry critical for improving degraded habitat.
However, most restoration is conducted without clearly defined success measures or …

To explore replacement control of the invasive weed Ipomoea cairica, we studied the
competitive effects of two valuable natives, Pueraria lobata and Paederia scandens, on …

Plants employ strategies of tolerance, endurance, and avoidance to cope with aridity in
space and time, yet understanding the differential importance of such strategies in …

Practitioners are challenged with choosing among many potentially effective methods for
sowing seed in ecological restoration projects to achieve sufficient native plant …

Although plants are known to conserve nutrients by resorbing them from senescing leaves,
how resorption of foliar macro‐and micronutrients is affected by plant growth form (eg, trees …

We tested the hypothesis that field applications of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) inocula
would increase root colonization and plant performance in a coastal sage scrub (CSS) …

Using nurse plants to facilitate native plant recruitment in degraded habitats is a common
restoration practice across various arid and semiarid environments. Living trees or shrubs …

Plant restoration activities can be positively or negatively affected by changes in the abiotic
or biotic environment from that of the pre-disturbance condition, such as invasion by …