Document Type

Contribution to Book

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Great Basin Native Plant Project: 2017 Progress Report

Publisher

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rocky Mountain Research Station

Publication Date

2018

First Page

201

Last Page

207

Abstract

Restoration projects rely on seedling establishment and persistence to foster invasion resistance and improve resilience to environmental stress and disturbance (James et al. 2010; Chambers et al. 2014). However, few studies have comprehensively evaluated the landscape-level performance of seeded species or the factors that control their short-term establishment and long-term persistence (Hardegree et al. 2011; Knutson et al. 2014). Assessing the role of these factors across physiographic regions that experience high temporal and spatial variability in environmental conditions will reveal the effectiveness of various pre-seeding land treatments and enhance our capacity to select appropriate restoration species for specific ecological sites based on their seeding establishment and persistence.

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