Patterns of Plant Species Diversity in Remnant and Restored Tallgrass Prairies

By H. Wayne Polley, Justin D. Derner, Brian J. Wilsey. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Biodiversity, phenology and temporal niche differences between native- and novel exotic-dominated grasslands (2011, background): “Now, roughly 50% of the area is used as cropland, with much of the rest returning to rangeland and oldfields dominated by a variety of mostly exotic species (Diggs et al., 1999; Polley et al., 2005).”
Assessing grassland restoration success: relative roles of seed additions and native ungulate activities (2006, background): “Typically, restorations are attempted by adding seeds from nearby remnants to a previously converted ecosystem (Sluis 2002; Polley, Derner & Wilsey 2005 ).”
Relationships Among Indices Suggest that Richness Is an Incomplete Surrogate for Grassland Biodiversity (2005, methodology): “We analyzed data (Table 1) from three Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) sites (Inouye et al. 1987, Milchunas et al. 1990, Huberty et al. 1998) and three sites in Texas (Wilsey and Polley 2003, Polley et al. 2005).”
Quantitative and Qualitative β Diversity Measures Lead to Different Insights into Factors That Structure Microbial Communities (2007, background): “Other studies of plant diversity in alpine tundra (1), shrub-steppe (17), and tallgrass prairie (23) and of phytoplankton diversity (32) have also found important and biologically meaningful differences in quantitative and qualitative diversity.”
Restoration of Prairie Community Structure and Ecosystem Function in an Abandoned Hayfield: A Sowing Experiment (2007, background): “…prairies of North America (Samson & Knopf 1994; Robertson et al. 1997), resulting in a substantial reduction of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the central United States since the onset of European settlement (Mann 1986; Kindscher & Tieszen 1998; Polley et al. 2005; Kucharik et al. 2006).”
Effects of Frequent Mowing on Survival and Persistence of Forbs Seeded into a Species‐Poor Grassland (2007, background): “We have observed that attempts at tallgrass prairie reconstruction often result in low levels of species richness compared to the initially diverse seed mixture (personal author observations) and are usually much less diverse than the native prairie remnants they emulate (Polley et al. 2005).”