Harnessing ecological theory to enhance ecosystem restoration

BR Silliman, MJS Hensel, JP Gibert, P Daleo, CS Smith… - Current Biology, 2024‏ - cell.com
Ecosystem restoration can increase the health and resilience of nature and humanity. As a
result, the international community is championing habitat restoration as a primary solution …

Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts

N Shackelford, GB Paterno, DE Winkler… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Restoration of degraded drylands is urgently needed to mitigate climate change, reverse
desertification and secure livelihoods for the two billion people who live in these areas. Bold …

Restoration islands: a tool for efficiently restoring dryland ecosystems?

KB Hulvey, EA Leger, LM Porensky… - Restoration …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Restoration islands are concentrated plantings in strategic locations, created to efficiently
use resources to achieve restoration goals. These methods have been used effectively in …

Historical contingency in species interactions: towards niche‐based predictions

RL Vannette, T Fukami - Ecology letters, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
The way species affect one another in ecological communities often depends on the order of
species arrival. The magnitude of such historical contingency, known as priority effects …

Using priority effects to manipulate competitive relationships in restoration

TP Young, KL Stuble, JA Balachowski… - Restoration …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Restoration success is often hampered by the failure of less dominant competitors to
establish. An emerging literature on priority effects suggests the manipulation of community …

Do subordinate species punch above their weight? Evidence from above-and below-ground

P Mariotte - New Phytologist, 2014‏ - JSTOR
Variation in the relative abundance of species is a ubiquitous feature of ecological
communities. Understanding the link between the relative abundance of a species and its …

Herbivory and drought interact to enhance spatial patterning and diversity in a savanna understory

LM Porensky, SE Wittman, C Riginos, TP Young - Oecologia, 2013‏ - Springer
The combination of abiotic stress and consumer stress can have complex impacts on plant
community structure. Effective conservation and management of semi-arid ecosystems …

Short‐term priority over exotic annuals increases the initial density and longer‐term cover of native perennial grasses

KJ Vaughn, TP Young - Ecological Applications, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Temporal priority can affect individual performance and reproduction, as well as community
assembly, but whether these effects persist over time remains unclear, and their …

Initial success of native grasses is contingent on multiple interactions among exotic grass competition, temporal priority, rainfall and site effects

TP Young, EP Zefferman, KJ Vaughn, S Fick - AoB Plants, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
Ecological communities are increasingly being recognized as the products of contemporary
drivers and historical legacies that are both biotic and abiotic. In an attempt to unravel …

Environmental heterogeneity has a weak effect on diversity during community assembly in tallgrass prairie

SG Baer, JM Blair, SL Collins - Ecological Monographs, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding what constrains the persistence of species in communities is at the heart of
community assembly theory and its application to conserving and enhancing biodiversity …