Seed addition and biomass removal key to restoring native forbs in degraded temperate grassland
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Small-mammal seed predation limits the recruitment and abundance of two perennial grassland forbs.
Although post-dispersal seed predators are common and often reduce seed density, their influence on plant population abundance remains unclear. On the one hand, increasing evidence suggests that many plant populations are seed limited, implying that seed predators could reduce plant abundance. On the other hand,.it is generally uncertain whether the magnitude of seed limitation imposed by grani...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Vegetation Science
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1402-2001
DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12352