Experimental manipulations of fertile islands and nurse plant effects in the Mojave Desert, USA

By L. Walker, D. B. Thompson, F. Landau. 2001

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• The role of nurse plants in the restoration of degraded environments (2006, background): “Walker et al. (2001), for example, reported higher survival rates of Ambrosia dumosa in the open than under shrubs in an arid environment, because Ambrosia can successfully cope with the conditions that exist in open areas.”
• Spatial ecology of a small desert shrub on adjacent geological substrates (2003, background): “Similar negative effects of Ambrosia plants on their seedlings have been reported from other sites (Vasek 1979/80; Prose et al. 1987; Hunter 1989; Miriti et al. 1998; Walker et al. 2001).”
• Sex Expression, Plant Size, and Spatial Segregation of the Sexes Across a Stress Gradient in the Desert Moss Syntrichia caninervis (2005, background): “…(Walker et al. 2001), 3) reduced surface soil temperatures beneath the canopy (Eldridge 2000; Kappan 1981; and LRS, unpub. data), 4) greater surface soil moisture present in the days following a rainstorm than intershrub sites (Bowker et al. 2000), and 5) lower herbivory (Walker et al. 2001).”
• Where do seedlings go? A spatio-temporal analysis of seedling mortality in a semi-arid gypsophyte (2008, background): “Some studies have shown that shrubs may facilitate the establishment of seedlings, but later compete with them as they grow and become adults (Walker et al. 2001, Miriti 2006).”
• Nurse plant theory and its application in ecological restoration in lower subtropics of China (2008, background): “If the tolerance of target species is poor in abiotic habitat or the environment is extremely serious (such as dry year), nurse plant cannot increase the seedling establishment [17].”