Identifying Mechanisms for Successful Ecological Restoration with Salvaged Topsoil in Coastal Sage Scrub Communities
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study System
2.2. Site Selection
2.3. Experimental design
2.4. Donor Site Seed-Bank Characterization
2.5. Plant Communities Data Collection
2.6. Soil Microbes
2.6.1. Bacterial Abundance
2.6.2. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
2.7. Fungal Library Construction and Sequencing
2.8. Bioinformatics
2.9. Statistical Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Donor Site Seed Bank
3.2. Vegetation Cover and Species Richness at the Recipient Sites
3.3. Soil Microbial Content
3.4. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities
4. Discussion
4.1. Response of the Plant Community
4.1.1. Reduction of Competition with Non-Natives via Burial of Invasive Seeds
4.1.2. Addition of Native Plants via Establishment of a Native Seed Bank
4.2. Transference of the Soil Microbiome
4.3. Methodological Implications
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Schmidt, K.T.; Maltz, M.; Ta, P.; Khalili, B.; Weihe, C.; Phillips, M.; Aronson, E.; Lulow, M.; Long, J.; Kimball, S. Identifying Mechanisms for Successful Ecological Restoration with Salvaged Topsoil in Coastal Sage Scrub Communities. Diversity 2020, 12, 150. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12040150
Schmidt KT, Maltz M, Ta P, Khalili B, Weihe C, Phillips M, Aronson E, Lulow M, Long J, Kimball S. Identifying Mechanisms for Successful Ecological Restoration with Salvaged Topsoil in Coastal Sage Scrub Communities. Diversity. 2020; 12(4):150. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12040150
Chicago/Turabian StyleSchmidt, Katharina T., Mia Maltz, Priscilla Ta, Banafshe Khalili, Claudia Weihe, Michala Phillips, Emma Aronson, Megan Lulow, Jennifer Long, and Sarah Kimball. 2020. "Identifying Mechanisms for Successful Ecological Restoration with Salvaged Topsoil in Coastal Sage Scrub Communities" Diversity 12, no. 4: 150. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12040150