Where should they come from? Where should they go? Several measures of seed source locality fail to predict plant establishment in early prairie restorations

Pizza, Riley; Foster, Jared C.; Brudvig, Lars A.

doi:10.1002/2688-8319.12223

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“…The United Nations' challenge to restore millions of hectares of land during 2021-2030 (the 'decade on restoration') will require considerable effort and guidance as to how best to implement research and practical protocols to maximize the recovery of biodiversity across restored ecosystems worldwide. Co-designing research will be pivotal in achieving these targets, and Pizza et al (2023) demonstrated this by creating a collaboration between academic scientists, a native seed producer and land stewards to better understand factors related to maximizing plant habitat restorations. Their work demonstrates that the restoration of tallgrass prairies is not amplified when using seed sources considered 'local'; rather, greater seeding rates and increased management of the restoration site after seeding are the elements needed to increase the likelihood that native species will successfully establish.…”

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Creating connections to maximize the mobilization of ecological knowledge into effective practice

Kurle

2024

Ecol Sol and Evidence

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Publishing research relevant to the management of biological resources and ecological systems is one of the aims of Ecological Solutions and Evidence (ESE). Collection of the necessary ecological data, and the chances that their analyses are successfully applied to conservation and management strategies, is frequently much improved when practitioners and academics work together on all aspects of a scientific project (Meadow et al., 2015;Walsh et al., 2019).To encourage, guide and hopefully increase the prevalence of co-designed projects, ESE hosted an Applied Ecology Resources (AER) Live workshop on the topic of creating and navigating successful co-designed research opportunities in 2021 (AER, 2021).We followed this up with an editorial on the topic (Kurle et al., 2022), co-design workshops at the 2023 annual meetings of the Ecological Society of America and the British Ecological Society, and a forthcoming co-design guide to help facilitate these partnerships. Finally, in the hopes of inspiring more ecologists to create and conduct co-designed research projects, we invited scientists to submit their Practice Insights, Perspectives, and Research Articles featuring examples of successful co-productionof knowledge and its applications to effective ecological solutions in this Special Feature.What follows is a wide-ranging collection of insights and advice for fostering co-designed projects, details of collaborative research for maintaining and restoring biodiversity and studies illustrating the importance of incorporating Indigenous knowledge and multiple stakeholders for expanding scientific participation, increasing successful outcomes and deepening access across multiple areas of expertise. We hope that this collection will inspire and challenge all of us to increase our efforts to forge scientific partnerships to broaden the reach of our ecological investigations and enhance their applications for more effective management and conservation. | CRE ATING EFFEC TIVE CO -DE S I G N PARTNER S HIPSWe recognize that there are still barriers to reaching across a perceived divide between practitioners and academics to create and carry out successful co-designed research (Bertuol-Garcia et al., 2018;Walsh et al., 2019), and we hope that the advice and success stories contained in this group of articles will inspire action to overcome those barriers. Couturier et al. (2023) present two stories of their experiences with long-term co-design partnerships, including potential challenges and best practices for increasing successful outcomes for biodiversity through collaborative ecosystem monitoring, assessment, and creation of effective conservation and management strategies. Piczak et al. (2022) use the example of Aquatic Habitat Toronto's (AHT) partnerships among a number of agencies to illustrate how enhancing knowledge co-production bridges the gap between 'knowledge generators' and 'knowledge users', thereby increasing the success of restoration ecology outcomes. Reaching back in time to generate meaningful modern data,...

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Creating connections to maximize the mobilization of ecological knowledge into effective practice

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2024

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Natural colonization as a means to upscale restoration of subarctic woodlands in Iceland

Behrend,

Aradóttir,

Svavarsdóttir

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Restoration Ecology

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The global climate and biodiversity crisis has led to extensive restoration initiatives, calling for cost‐effective strategies harnessing the potential of natural processes. Natural colonization of target species is a key process in the scaling up of woodland restoration, and effective planning and implementation of restoration strategies requires a mechanistic understanding of colonization processes. In this study, we investigated patterns and processes of natural colonization of mountain birch (Betula pubescens ssp. tortuosa), the only native woodland‐forming tree species in Iceland, into adjacent treeless lands under diverse conditions, and its implications for low‐intensity restoration strategies. Accordingly, we assessed spatial patterns of seedling densities on transects extending from 10 birch woodlands in Iceland and analyzed the impact of local environments on colonization dynamics. Seedling densities generally decreased rapidly with distance from the seed source to around 40 m. In many study areas, however, birch seedlings were registered at high enough densities to potentially form woodlands, up to 140 m from a standing seed source. We identified a range of biotic and abiotic determinants of colonization, with the largest number affecting the early‐establishment phase of birch colonization, including safe site availability, wind speed and dominant direction, and grazing. Our results demonstrate a good potential for natural colonization as a restoration strategy for birch woodlands in subarctic environments, and they can furthermore be used to identify areas where birch colonization is likely to occur naturally and determine appropriate interventions that can facilitate birch colonization in areas where it is less likely.

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Where should they come from? Where should they go? Several measures of seed source locality fail to predict plant establishment in early prairie restorations

Abstract: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Creating connections to maximize the mobilization of ecological knowledge into effective practice

Creating connections to maximize the mobilization of ecological knowledge into effective practice

Natural colonization as a means to upscale restoration of subarctic woodlands in Iceland

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