Nurse plant theory and its application in ecological restoration in lower subtropics of China
By H. Ren, Long Yang, Nan Liu. 2008
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Abstract Nurse plants are those that facilitate the growth and development of other plant species (target species) beneath their canopy because they offer benign microhabitats that are more favorable for seed germination and/or seedling recruitment than their surrounding environment. Nurse plants have been mainly used to restore vegetation in arid and sub-arid zones in recent years. Based on summarizing the definition of nurse plant and target plant, we review the nursing effect mechanisms, ecological factors that influence nursing effect, relationships between nurse plant and ecological restoration. This review also brings forward possible pairs of nurse and target species at lower subtropical areas. Furthermore, we provide the potential tendency in nurse plant research and application.
Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Using priority effects to manipulate competitive relationships in restoration (2017, background): “The various expressions of such facilitative (as opposed to competitive) plant–plant relationships in the context of restoration have already been explored elsewhere (Padilla & Pugnaire 2006; Brooker et al. 2008; Ren et al. 2008; Yelenik et al. 2014), and may involve the suppression of weedy species”
- Morpho-Anatomical Traits for Plant Adaptation to Drought (2012, unknown): “zones in recent years (Ren et al. 2008).”