Use of Shrubs as Nurse Plants: A New Technique for Reforestation in Mediterranean Mountains

By J. Castro, Regino Zamora, J. Hódar, J. Gómez. 2002

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Regeneration of a Mediterranean oak: A whole-cycle approach (2005, background): “The two-fold difference in the intensity of summer mortality due to desiccation between forest and dehesa may be attributable to the absence of shade provided by shrub cover in the latter plot (Castro et al., 2001).”
Unpalatable plants facilitate tree sapling survival in wooded pastures (2006, background): “In Mediterranean areas, transplanting tree saplings under naturally existing nurse shrubs is a successful alternative technique for reforestation, offering both economic and ecological advantages above the more traditional large-scale clear-cutting and planting technique (Castro et al. 2002).”
Nurse plant theory and its application in ecological restoration in lower subtropics of China (2008, background): “Shrubs constrain available understory water by rainfall redistribution at a lower intensity of rainfall, whereas, when there is a heavy rainfall, its redistribution by shrub crown arrives at understory through stem flow, which will influence the development of target species [29].”
Salvage Logging Versus the Use of Burnt Wood as a Nurse Object to Promote Post‐Fire Tree Seedling Establishment (2011, background): “…at the soil level (higher soil moisture, lower soil temperature), allowing improved seedling development in relation to the denser, more homogeneous canopy of the NI treatment (see Castro et al. 2002, 2006, for a similar explanation related to nurse shrubs of different size and canopy structure).”
A seeding experiment for testing tree-community recruitment under variable environments: Implications for forest regeneration and conservation in Mediterranean habitats (2009, unknown): “Biol. Conserv. (2009), doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.02.018 damage, higher relative humidity, and lower soil temperature ( Castro et al., 2002, 2004; Gomez-Aparicio et al., 2004).”
Facilitation of tree saplings by nurse plants: Microhabitat amelioration or protection against herbivores? (2008, background): “suffer extremely low temperatures in winter, and there is already some evidence suggesting that protection from winter frosts could also represent an important facilitation mechanism in these systems (Castro et al. 2002).”
The role of nurse plants in the restoration of degraded environments (2006, background): “A large number of experiments have been carried out to test the potential of esparto grass (Stipa tenacissima), a widespread perennial tussock-forming grass, as a nurse plant on degraded semiarid steppes in southeast Spain.”
Restoration of Dry Afromontane Forest Using Pioneer Shrubs as Nurse‐Plants for Olea europaea ssp. cuspidata (2007, background): “…of Blue oak (Quercus douglasii Hook) and Valley oak (Q. lobata Née) in California (Callaway 1992) and of Black pine (Pinus nigra Arnold), Scots pine (P. sylvestris L.), Melojo oak (Q. pyrenaica Willd), and other tree species in Spain (Castro et al. 2002, 2004, 2006; Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2004).”
Facilitation by herbivore‐mediated nurse plants in a threatened tree, Taxus baccata: local effects and landscape level consistency (2003, background): “In addition, yew population restoration should consider the use of cone-shaped holly trees as transplanting microsites (see also Castro et al. 2002).”
Restoring Quercus pyrenaica forests using pioneer shrubs as nurse plants (2006, unknown): “…as other reforested trees in the Mediterranean area (García-Salmerón 1995; Vallejo et al. 2003; Castro et al. 2002, 2004a; Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2004), are caused mostly by heavy mortality during the first growing season (Vallejo et al. 2003; Castro et al. 2002, 2004a; Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2004).”
Alleviation of Summer Drought Boosts Establishment Success of Pinus sylvestris in a Mediterranean Mountain: An Experimental Approach (2005, background): “…a gradient from high radiation and low soil moisture in the Open microhabitat to deep shade and higher soil moisture in Pine microhabitat (see Castro et al. 2002b, 2004a; Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2004, for a similar pattern in abiotic conditions) that uncouples the requirements for survival…”
Pine processionary caterpillar Thaumetopoea pityocampa as a new threat for relict Mediterranean Scots pine forests under climatic warming (2003, methodology): “This task may be achieved with techniques already developed in situ using shrubs as nurse plants to increase seedling survival (Castro et al., 2002; Gómez et al., 2001b), thereby minimizing the ecological impact of reforestation on these protected high-mountain ecosystems.”
Benefits of Using Shrubs as Nurse Plants for Reforestation in Mediterranean Mountains: A 4‐Year Study (2004, background): “…28% cover by the shrubby evergreen Salvia lavandulifolia (a scrub reaching some 25 cm in height), and 10% deciduous spiny shrubs, mostly Prunus ramburii , Crataegus granatensis and Berberis hispanica (which reach around 150 cm in height) (see Castro et al. 2002 for details on habitat structure).”
Facilitation of Quercus ilex recruitment by shrubs in Mediterranean open woodlands (2008, background): “Seedlings of many tree species profit from the presence of various nurse shrubs in Mediterranean forests (Castro et al. 2002, 2004; Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2004; Pulido & Díaz 2005), despite variation in the magnitude of facilitative effects between species.”