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Traits, neighbors, and species performance in prairie restoration

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Wilson, Mark V., Clark, Deborah Louise, 1950-, and Roberts, R. E.

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Questions: Are traits related to the performance of plant species in restoration? Are the relationships between traits and performance consistent across the functional groups of annual forbs, perennial forbs, and grasses? Do the relationships between traits and performance depend on neighboring functional groups? Location: A former agricultural field, being restored...

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abundance explained by individual traits to vary widely, with R2 from 0.03 to 0.88 (e. g., Austrheim et al
Plant traits – a tool for restoration?

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Clark, Deborah Louise, 1950-, Wilson, Mark V., Roberts, Rachel, Dunwiddie, Peter W., Stanley, Amanda, and Kaye, Thomas N.

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Question: Most results of restoration efforts are species-specific and/or site-specific and therefore are not general enough to be easily applied to other species and other sites. Our research addresses the issue of species-specific results by investigating the feasibility of using plant traits instead of taxonomic species to characterize species responses...

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. A measure of the useful variation within categorical traits is Hill’s Index (I1 = eH'), where e is