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Sediment grain size in seagrass restoration plots in the Virginia coastal bays, 2010-2016
This dataset contains particle size distributions for sediment samples collected from Z. marina restoration plots in Hog Island Bay and South Bay, VA. Samples were collected every three years starting in 2010 from 64 sites in Hog Island Bay (58 restored seagrass sites, 6 bare sites), and 12 sites in South Bay (6 restored seagrass sites, 6 bare sites). Bare sites in South Bay were no longer sampled after 2013, due to colonization of the sites by seagrass. Restored sites were seeded between 2001-2008; plot-level particle size distributions were combined based on the age of the plots during each sampling year.
Black Start Allocation for Power System Restoration Data
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Data from: Priorities and motivations of marine coastal restoration research
<p>Active restoration is becoming an increasingly important conservation intervention to counteract the degradation of marine coastal ecosystems. <a name="_Hlk39173233">Understanding what has motivated the scientific community to research the restoration of marine coastal ecosystems and how restoration research projects are funded is essential if we want to scale-up restoration interventions to meaningful extents.</a><a name="_Hlk39173099">Here, we systematically review and synthesize data to understand the motivations for research on the restoration of coral reefs, seagrass, mangroves, saltmarsh, and oyster reefs. We base this analysis off a published database of marine restoration studies, originally designed to estimate the cost and feasibility of marine coastal restoration, derived from mostly scientific studies published in peer-reviewed and some grey literature. For the present study, the database was updated with fields aimed at assessing the motivations, outcomes, and funding sources for each project. </a>We classify restoration motivations into five categories: biotic, experimental, idealistic, legislative, and pragmatic. Moreover, we evaluate the variables measured and outcomes reported by the researchers and evaluate whether projects adhered to the Society for Ecological Restoration's (SER) standards for the practice of ecological restoration. <a name="_Hlk39174556">The most common motivation of the scientific community to study restoration in marine coastal ecosystems was experimental i.e. to seek experimental data to answer ecological research questions or improve restoration approach, as expected since mostly peer-reviewed literature was evaluated here. There were differences in motivations among the five coastal ecosystems. For instance, biodiversity enhancement was the most common case for a biotic motivation in mangrove restoration projects</a>. The most common metrics evaluated were growth/productivity, survivorship, habitat function, physical attributes and reproduction. For most ecosystems, ecological outcomes were frequently reported, with socio-economic implications of the restoration rarely mentioned, except for mangroves. Projects were largely funded by governmental grants with some investment from private donations, non-governmental organizations, and the involvement of volunteers. Our findings and database provide critical data to align future research of the scientific community with the real social, economic and policy needs required to scale-up marine coastal restoration projects.</p>
Using genomics to optimise and evaluate the performance of underwater forest restoration
<p>1. Restoration is an emerging intervention to reverse the degradation and loss of marine habitat-formers and the ecosystem services they underpin. Current best practice seeks to restore populations by transplanting donor individuals chosen to replicate genetic diversity and structure of extant, nearby populations. However, genetic characteristics are rarely empirically examined across generations, despite their potential role in influencing restoration success.</p> <p>2. We used genomics to design a restoration program for lost underwater forests of Phyllospora comosa, a dominant forest-forming macroalga that went locally extinct from reefs off Sydney, Australia. Population genetic diversity and structure of nearby extant populations informed choice of donor sites. We tested whether donor provenance influenced adult transplant survival, condition (via metrics of epibiosis) and the genetic characteristics of recruits at restoration sites.</p> <p>3. Extant populations of Phyllospora within a 100 km radius of Sydney comprised three distinct genetic clusters with similar levels of genetic diversity. We transplanted reproductive adults from two of these sites, with the aim of restoring five Phyllospora forests with levels of genetic structure and diversity similar to donor populations.</p> <p>4. Donor provenance influenced survival and condition of transplanted adults and recruitment levels varied significantly among restoration sites. Yet, recruitment was rapid and genetic diversity and structure of the F1 generation resembled extant populations. This likely occurred because transplanted individuals reproduced synchronously and rapidly post-transplantation, prior to mortality of adult donor transplants.</p> <p>5. Synthesis and applications: As restoration and the need to "future-proof" marine ecosystems increase globally, it will be critical to understand the role of genetic diversity and structure in restoration success. This study demonstrates that evidence-based selection of donor macroalgal forests for restoration using genomics can result in levels of genetic diversity and structure in the F1 generation that resemble extant populations. However, further refinement of transplantation techniques to maximise recruitment is also needed.02-Jun-2020</p>
Reintroduced grazers and prescribed fire effects on beetle assemblage structure and function in restored grasslands
<p>Ecological restoration seeks to re-establish functioning ecosystems, but planning and evaluation often focus on taxonomic community structure and neglect consumers and their functional roles. The functional trait composition of insect assemblages, which make up the majority of animal diversity in many systems, can reveal how they are affected by restoration management and the consequences for ecosystem function. We sampled ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in restored tallgrass prairies varying in management with prescribed fire and reintroduced American bison (<i>Bison bison</i>) to describe their taxonomic and functional trait structure. We also measured seed and arthropod predation to relate management, beetle assemblage characteristics, and function, and to test if function is maximized by trait diversity, dominant trait values, or beetle abundance. Beetle assemblages primarily varied with restoration age, declining over time in richness and both taxonomic and functional diversity, but bison presence also influenced taxonomic composition. Prescribed fire reduced seed predation in summer and arthropod predation in fall. Although seed predation was unrelated to beetle assemblages, arthropod predation was greater in sites with higher abundances of carnivorous ground beetles. The relatively weak impacts of fire and bison on functional assemblage structure is a promising sign that these management disturbances, aimed at supporting a diverse native plant community, are not detrimental to beetle assemblages. The significance of reduced predator function following prescribed fire will depend on the restoration context and whether seed or arthropod predation relates to management goals.</p>
Data from: Inducing seed dispersal by generalist frugivores: A new technique to overcome dispersal limitation in restoration
<p><b>1.</b> Dispersal limitation severely impairs the trajectory of restoration, mainly due to the lack of seed vectors bringing seeds from nearby habitats; a role played by many frugivorous vertebrates that can be absent or reduced in restored or degraded sites.</p> <p><b>2.</b> Here we propose a new technique named Induced Seed Dispersal, that amplifies the role that many generalist frugivores have in seed dispersal. It consists in the offering of seeds embedded in the pulp of commercial fruits or whole native fleshy fruits in feeders to generalist frugivores, which ingest the seeds and defecate them elsewhere. We set feeders in a restored site and monitored the visiting pattern of these frugivores with cameras-traps. We also set seed traps to retrieve seeds dispersed by frugivores and offered around 1500 seeds of <i>Cecropia hololeuca</i> (Urticaceae) per week for one year.</p> <p><b>3</b>. We recorded at least 24 generalist frugivore species of terrestrial mammals, bats, and birds, which ingested/removed the seeds/fruits from the feeders. Seeds of <i>C. hololeuca</i> dispersed by marmosets were retrieved in the seed traps and germinated. We estimated a potential seed rain of more than 600 <i>C. hololeuca </i>seeds ha<sup>-1</sup> mo<sup>-1</sup>.</p> <p><b>4</b>. <i>Synthesis and applications</i>. Our study demonstrates that this new technique can make use of generalist frugivores to assist restoration or regeneration into sites where seed dispersal is compromised by the lack of dispersers or limited seed arrival. Inducing seed dispersal by generalist frugivores is a low-cost and easy-managed technique that can be applied year-round in restoration and forest enrichments at all scales.</p>
Data from: Changes in potential nitrous oxide efflux during grassland restoration
Nitrous oxide efflux from soil is an important ecological process in terms of global climate impacts, stratospheric chemistry, and soil fertility. The effects of grassland restoration on nitrous oxide (N2O) efflux in formerly cultivated agricultural soils are not well known. Restoration changes the storage and availability of soil C and N, with potential consequences for N2O efflux. We examined changes in potential N2O efflux across a 35-year chronosequence of grassland restorations, using lab incubations at moisture levels that maximized N2O emissions, to quantify the relationship between N2O efflux and soil properties known to change predictably during grassland restoration. We found that restoring cultivated agricultural land to grassland rapidly decreased N2O efflux from soils, though native prairie had a potential N2O efflux higher than the agricultural land. The oldest restoration had N2O efflux 50 times lower than native prairie. Changes in N2O efflux were more strongly correlated with N mineralization than C mineralization, according to multiple regression analysis. These results suggest that grassland restoration could mitigate nitrous oxide emissions for decades.
Data from: Effects of restoration on tree communities and carbon storage in rainforest fragments of the Western Ghats, India
Ecological restoration is a leading strategy for reversing biodiversity losses and enhancing terrestrial carbon sequestration in degraded tropical forests. There have been few comprehensive assessments of recovery following restoration in fragmented forest landscapes, and the efficacy of active versus passive (i.e., natural regeneration) restoration remains unclear. We examined 11 indicators of forest structure, tree diversity and composition (adult and sapling), and aboveground carbon storage in 25 pairs of actively restored (AR; 7–15 yr after weed removal and mixed-native tree species planting) and naturally regenerating (NR) plots within degraded rainforest fragments, and in 17 less-disturbed benchmark (BM) rainforest plots in the Western Ghats, India. We assessed the effects of active restoration on the 11 indicators and tested the hypothesis that active restoration effects increase with isolation from contiguous and relatively intact rainforests. Active restoration significantly increased canopy cover, adult tree and sapling density, adult and sapling species density (overall and late successional), compositional similarity to benchmarks, and aboveground carbon storage, which recovered 14–82% toward BM targets relative to NR baselines. By contrast, tree height–diameter ratios and the proportion of native saplings did not recover consistently in actively restored forests. The effects of active restoration on canopy cover, species density (adult), late successional species density (adult and sapling), and species composition, but not carbon storage, increased with isolation across the fragmented landscape. Our findings show that active restoration can promote recovery of forest structure, composition, and carbon storage within 7–15 yr of restoration in degraded tropical rainforest fragments, although the benefits of active over passive restoration across fragmented landscapes would depend on indicator type and may increase with site isolation. These findings on early stages of recovery suggest that active restoration in ubiquitous fragmented landscapes of the tropics could complement passive restoration of degraded forests in less fragmented landscapes, and protection of intact forests, as a key strategy for conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change.
Data from: Management actions shape dung beetle community structure and functional traits in restored tallgrass prairie
<p>1. Ecosystem restoration often focuses on reestablishing species richness and diversity of native organisms, especially plants. However, effective restoration requires re-establishment of ecosystem functions and processes by all trophic levels. Functional trait descriptions of communities, including decomposer communities, may provide more comprehensive evaluations of restoration activities and management than taxonomic community metrics alone.</p> <p>2. We examined species and functional trait composition of dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Geotrupidae) communities across a 3-31 year chronosequence of restored prairies, in which sites varied in the presence of re-introduced bison and prescribed fire. We calculated functional diversity metrics and community-weighted mean trait values using behavioral and morphological measurements. We also performed a dung decomposition experiment to measure an ecosystem function driven by these insects.</p> <p>3. Bison presence doubled beetle abundance and increased richness by 50%. Shannon diversity increased with restoration age, nearly doubling from the youngest to oldest restorations. Functional diversity was unchanged, except functional richness, which was reduced by bison and fire presence. Beetles were, on average, smaller in older restorations, although this pattern was weaker when bison were present.</p> <p>4. Dung decomposition was unaffected by site characteristics but increased with community weighted mean beetle mass. Dung decomposition was better predicted by mean trait values, suggesting that supporting large-bodied species may be more important than species diversity in settings where maximizing decomposition function is a goal.</p> <p>5. Restoration managers should consider dung beetle communities and their functional characteristics when making management decisions, particularly where large grazers are a component of management strategies.</p> <p> </p>
Multi-species occupancy modeling provides novel insights into amphibian metacommunity structure and wetland restoration
<p>A fundamental goal of community ecology is to understand species-habitat relationships and how they shape metacommunity structure. Recent advances in occupancy modeling enable habitat relationships to be assessed for both common and rare species within metacommunities using multi-species occupancy models (MSOM). These models account for imperfect species detection and offer considerable advantages over other analytical tools commonly used for community analyses under the elements of metacommunity structure (EMS) framework. Here, we demonstrate that MSOM can be used to infer habitat relationships and test metacommunity theory, using amphibians. Repeated frog surveys were undertaken at 55 wetland sites in eastern Australia. We detected 11 frog species from three families (Limnodynastidae, Myobatrachidae and Pelodryadidae). The rarest species was detected at only one site whereas the most common species was detected at 42 sites (naïve occupancy rate: 0.02 – 0.76). Two models were assessed representing two competing hypotheses; the best-supported model included the covariates distance to the nearest site (connectivity), wetland area, presence of the non-native eastern mosquitofish (<i>Gambusia holbrooki</i>), proportion cover of emergent vegetation, an interaction term between Gambusia and emergent vegetation cover, and the proportion canopy cover over a site. Hydroperiod played no detectable role in metacommunity structure. We found species-habitat relationships that fit with current metacommunity theory – occupancy increased with wetland area and connectivity. There was a strong negative relationship between occupancy and the presence of predatory Gambusia, and a positive interaction between Gambusia and emergent vegetation. The presence of canopy cover strongly increased occupancy for several tree frog species, highlighting the importance of terrestrial habitat for amphibian community structure. We demonstrated how responses by amphibians to environmental covariates at the species level can be linked to occupancy patterns at the metacommunity scale. Our results have clear management implications – wetland restoration projects for amphibians and likely other taxa should maximize wetland area and connectivity, establish partial canopy cover, and eradicate Gambusia or provide aquatic vegetation to mitigate the impact of this non-native fish. We strongly advocate the use of MSOM to elucidate the habitat drivers behind animal occupancy patterns and to derive unbiased occupancy estimates for monitoring programmes.</p>
Data from: Constrained optimization of landscape indices in conservation planning to support ecological restoration in New Caledonia
<p>1. Curbing habitat loss, reducing fragmentation, and restoring connectivity are frequent concerns of conservation planning. In this respect, the incorporation of spatial constraints, fragmentation, and connectivity indices into optimization procedures is an important challenge for improving decision support.</p> <p>2. Here we present a novel optimization approach developed to accurately represent a broad range of conservation planning questions with spatial constraints and landscape indices. Relying on constraint programming, a technique from artificial intelligence based on automatic reasoning, this approach provides both constraint satisfaction and optimality guarantees.</p> <p>3. We applied this approach in a real case study to support managers of the ``Côte Oubliée -- `Woen Vùù -- Pwa Pereeù'' provincial park project, in the biodiversity hotspot of New Caledonia. Under budget, accessibility, and equitable allocation constraints, we identified restorable areas optimal for reducing forest fragmentation and improving inter-patch structural connectivity, respectively measured with the effective mesh size and the integral index of connectivity.</p> <p>4. Synthesis and applications. Our work contributes to more effective and policy-relevant conservation planning by providing a spatially-explicit and problem-focused optimization approach. By allowing an exact representation of spatial constraints and landscape indices, it can address new questions and ensure whether the solutions will be socio-economically feasible, through optimality and satisfiability guarantees. Our approach is generic and flexible, thus applicable to a wide range of conservation planning problems such as ecological restoration planning, reserve or corridor design.</p>
Restoration thinning permits stems to capitalise on high-rainfall years in a regenerating endangered forest ecosystem
<p><span>1. Passively regenerating native vegetation presents a cost-effective opportunity to sequester carbon and reinstate habitat in heavily cleared agricultural landscapes.</span></p> <p><span>2. However, in some cases a few woody species recolonise in dense, low-diversity stands that are slow to self-thin.</span></p> <p><span>3. Restoration thinning of over-dominant species has been proposed to accelerate ecosystem recovery, but its longer-term efficacy remains uncertain, and is likely to depend strongly on rainfall.</span></p> <p><span>4. This study focuses on a restoration thinning experiment established in 2007 in dense brigalow (<i>Acacia harpophylla</i>) regrowth in Queensland, Australia. Using variation in rainfall between 2007 and 2017, we examined the interactive effects of neighbourhood density and moisture availability on the growth and survival of <i>A. harpophylla. </i></span></p> <p><span>5. We also compared the strength of <i>A. harpophylla</i> density effects on itself to its effects on a sparsely distributed co-occurring tree species (<i>Casuarina cristata</i>) that was codominant in the original forest.</span></p> <p><span>6. Our results provide clear evidence that thinning permits <i>A. harpophylla</i> to grow rapidly during periods of high rainfall, and that interspecific competition between A<i>. harpophylla</i> and <i>C. cristata</i> is relatively weak. As such, thinning of dense <i>A. harpophylla</i> could be combined with seeding or planting of co-occurring tree species with complementary niches to further accelerate forest recovery in this extensive regrowth ecosystem.</span></p>
Genotype data from: Restoration of transborder connectivity for Fennoscandian brown bears (Ursus arctos)
<p class="brdtekstNINA">Knowledge about the connectivity among natural populations is essential to identify management units for effective conservation actions. Conservation-minded management has led to the recovery of large carnivore populations in northern Europe, possibly restoring connectivity between the two separated, but expanding brown bear (<i>Ursus arctos</i>) populations on the Scandinavian peninsula to the west and Karelia, a part of the large Eurasian population, to the east. The degree of connectivity between these populations has been poorly understood, therefore we investigated the extent of connectivity between the two populations using autosomal microsatellites and Y chromosome haplotypes in 924 male bears (the dispersing sex), sampled during a period of 12 years (2005-2017) across the transborder area where these two populations meet. Our results showed that the two populations are not genetically isolated as reported in earlier studies. We detected recent asymmetrical gene flow at a rate (individuals per generation) of 4.6-5.5 (1%) from Karelia into Scandinavia, whereas the rate was approximately 27.1-34.5 (8%) in the opposite direction. We estimated historical gene flow of effective number of migrants to be between 1.7 and 2.5 between the populations. Analyses of Y chromosome markers supported these results. Successful recovery and expansion of both populations led to the restoration of connectivity, however, it is asymmetric, possibly due to different recovery histories and population densities. By aligning monitoring between neighboring countries, we were able to better understand the biological processes across the relevant spatial scale.</p>
Data from: Reintroduced native Populus nigra in restored floodplain reduces spread of exotic poplar species
<p class="AuthorList">Exotic <i>Populus</i> taxa pose a threat to the success of riparian forest restoration in floodplain areas. We evaluated the impact of exotic <i>Populus</i> taxa on softwood riparian forest development along the river Common Meuse after introducing native <i>Populus nigra</i> and after the re-establishment of the natural river dynamics. We sampled 154 poplar seedlings that spontaneously colonised restored habitat and assessed their taxonomy based on diagnostic chloroplast and nuclear microsatellite markers. Furthermore, by using a paternity analysis on 72 seedlings resulting from six open pollinated <i>P. nigra </i>females, we investigated natural hybridization between frequently planted cultivated poplars and native <i>P. nigra</i>.</p> <p>The majority of the poplar seedlings from the gravel banks analyzed where identified as <i>P. nigra</i>; only 2% of the sampled seedlings exhibited genes of exotic poplar species. Similarly, the majority of the seedlings from the open pollinated progenies were identified as <i>P. nigra</i>. For three seedlings (4%), paternity was assigned to a cultivar of <i>P.</i> x <i>canadensis</i>.</p> <p>Almost two decades after reintroducing <i>P. nigra</i>, the constitution of the seed and pollen pools changed in the study area in favour of reproduction of the native species and at the expense of the exotic poplar species. This study indicates that, although significant gene flow form exotic poplars is observed in European floodplains, restoration programmes of the native <i>P. nigra</i> can vigorously outcompete the exotic gene flows and strongly reduce the impact of exotic <i>Populus</i> taxa on the softwood riparian forest development.</p>
The genetic basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in wheat
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Hybrid wheat varieties give higher yields than conventional lines but are difficult to produce due to a lack of effective control of male fertility in breeding lines. One promising system involves the <i>Rf1</i> and <i>Rf3</i> genes that restore fertility of wheat plants carrying <i>Triticum timopheevii</i>-type cytoplasmic male sterility (T-CMS). By genetic mapping and comparative sequence analyses we identified <i>Rf1</i> and <i>Rf3</i> candidates that could restore normal pollen production in transgenic wheat plants carrying T-CMS. We show that Rf1 and Rf3 bind to the mitochondrial <i>orf279</i> transcript and induce cleavage, preventing expression of the CMS trait. The identification of restorer genes in wheat is an important step towards the development of hybrid wheat varieties based on a CMS-<i>Rf</i> system. The characterisation of their mode of action brings new insights into the molecular basis of CMS and fertility restoration in plants.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <br> This dataset includes transcript count and coverage data from 2 RNA-seq experiments looking at gene expression in various male-sterile or male-fertile wheat lines examined in the course of this research.</p>
The long-term effect of restoration interventions, landscape composition, and time on the restoration success of Pannonic sand grasslands
<p>Data for the manuscript</p>
Behavioral and ephys data of research paper: Microsecond interaural time difference discrimination restored by cochlear implants after neonatal deafness
<p>The uploaded raw behavioral and electrophysiological data form the basis for our research study on "Microsecond Interaural Time Difference Discrimination Restored by Cochlear Implants After Neonatal Deafness". Based on this data we were able to show that neonatally deafened (ND) rats provided with precisely synchronized cochlear implant stimulation in adulthood can be trained to lateralize interaural time differences (ITDs) with essentially normal behavioral thresholds near 50 μs. Furthermore, comparable ND rats show high physiological sensitivity to ITDs immediately after binaural implantation in adulthood.</p> <p>In addition to the raw data, we provided scripts to analyze the psychometric functions for the ITD sensitivity of our acoustically or electrically stimulated rats (see Fig. 1 of the manuscript). To reproduce the analysis of the electrophysiological data (see Figs. 3+4 of the manuscript), various analysis scripts were added in addition to the raw data. For a detailed description of the data analysis of these data, see section "Data analysis" of the Methods section of our manuscript.</p> <p> </p>
Data from: Where and how to restore in a changing world: a demographic-based assessment of resilience
Managers are increasingly looking to apply concepts of resilience to better anticipate and understand conservation and restoration in a changing environment. In this study, we explore how information on demography (recruitment, growth and survival) and competitive effects in different environments and with different starting species abundances can be used to better understand resilience. We use observational and experimental data to better understand dynamics between native Stipa pulchra and exotic Avena barbata and fatua, grasses characteristic of native and invaded grasslands in California, at three different levels of nitrogen (N) representative of a range of pollution via atmospheric deposition. A modelling framework that incorporates this information on demography and competition allows us to forecast dynamics over time. Our results showed that resilience of native grasslands depends on N inputs, where natural recovery should be possible at low N levels whereas native persistence would be difficult at high N levels. Hysteresis was evident at moderate N levels, where the starting conditions mattered. Synthesis and applications. The resilience of both invaded and native grasslands is influenced by nitrogen inputs. Our modelling approach gives direction about how best to allocate limited management resources as baselines shift: where natural recovery is possible, where best to allocate active restoration efforts, and where native remnants may be most vulnerable.
Data from: Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of manipulation during grassland restoration
The 'environmental heterogeneity hypothesis' predicts that variability in resources promotes species coexistence, but few experiments support this hypothesis in plant communities. A previous 15-y test of this hypothesis in a prairie restoration experiment demonstrated a weak effect of manipulated soil resource heterogeneity on plant diversity. This response was attributed to a transient increase in richness following a post-restoration supplemental propagule addition, occasionally higher diversity under nutrient enrichment, and reduced cover of a dominant species in a subset of soil treatments. Here, we report community dynamics under continuous propagule addition in the same experiment, corresponding to 16-20 y of restoration, in response to altered availability and heterogeneity of soil resources. We also quantified traits of newly added species to determine if heterogeneity increases the amount and variety of niches available for new species to exploit. The heterogeneous treatment contained a factorial combination of altered nutrient availability and soil depth; control plots had no manipulations. Total diversity and richness were higher in the heterogeneous treatment during this 5 y study due to higher cover, diversity, and richness of previously established forbs, particularly in the N-enriched subplots. All new species added to the experiment exhibited unique trait spaces, but there was no evidence that heterogeneous plots contained a greater variety of new species representing a wider range of trait spaces relative to the control treatment. The richness and cover of new species was higher in N-enriched soil, but the magnitude of this response was small. Communities assembling under long-term N addition were dominated by different species among subplots receiving added N, leading to greater dispersion of communities among the heterogeneous relative to control plots. Contrary to the deterministic mechanism by which heterogeneity was expected to increase diversity (greater variability in resources for new species to exploit), higher diversity in the heterogeneous plots resulted from destabilization of formerly grass-dominated communities in N-enriched subplots. While we do not advocate increasing available soil N at large scales, we conclude that the positive effect of environmental heterogeneity on diversity can take decades to materialize and depend on development of stochastic processes in communities with strong establishment limitation.
Data from: Evidence-based restoration of freshwater biodiversity after mining: Experience from Central European spoil heaps
<p>Supplementary datasets for <strong>Kolar et al. (in press) Evidence-based restoration of freshwater biodiversity after mining: Experience from Central European spoil heaps. <em>Journal of Applied Ecology.</em></strong></p> <p>All related information can be found in the cited paper.</p> <p>When using the dataset for anything, cite the Kolar et al. <em>Journal of Applied Ecology </em>paper.</p> <p>For additional information, refer the paper or write to robert.tropek@gmail.com and kolarvojta@seznam.cz </p>
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