Mass effects, clonality, and phenology but not seed traits predict species success in colonizing restored grasslands

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F18%3A43897435" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/18:43897435 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/18:00490487

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/rec.12588" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/rec.12588</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.12588" target="_blank" >10.1111/rec.12588</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mass effects, clonality, and phenology but not seed traits predict species success in colonizing restored grasslands

Original language description

Preserved grasslands commonly host species-rich plant communities but a large part of the grasslands were plowed up in the past. Their restoration often requires a long time and initial restoration measures might trigger ecosystem recovery, which is then followed by spontaneous colonization. We evaluate the establishment success of target grassland species, which were not sown but established spontaneously in the restored grasslands of Bile Karpaty Mts., SE Czech Republic. According to their key functional traits and incidence in the landscape (mass effect; acquired from the results of a grid mapping project in the region), we examined the frequency of species and their mean cover in 82 restored grasslands. The best predictor of species frequency in the grasslands was their mass effect, followed by a high capacity for clonal growth and late phenology. Seed dispersal traits (seed mass, terminal velocity, epizoochory ranking index) and plant height had no significant effect. Specific leaf area was positively correlated with mass effect. Species having a high cover in the restored grasslands had a high capacity for clonal growth. In the preparation of seed mixtures, we should therefore consider that nonclonal species relying on regeneration from seeds will be generally less able to reproduce and should be promoted by artificial sowing. At the same time, species common in the landscape, which spread well clonally, and those with a late phenology, might be expected to colonize restored meadows on their own, so that sowing them is not necessary.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-09979S" target="_blank" >GA17-09979S: Factors determining vegetation succession at the country scale</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Restoration Ecology

ISSN

1061-2971

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

489-496

UT code for WoS article

000434171000015

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85048131764