Need to seed? Ecological, genetic, and evolutionary keys to seed-based wetland restoration

KM Kettenring, EE Tarsa - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
As we approach the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030), there is renewed focus
on improving wetland restoration practices to reestablish the habitat and climate mitigation …

Climate relicts and their associated communities as natural ecology and evolution laboratories

SA Woolbright, TG Whitham, CA Gehring… - Trends in ecology & …, 2014 - cell.com
Climate relicts, marginal populations that have become isolated via climate-driven range
shifts, preserve ecological and evolutionary histories that can span millennia. Studies point …

Genetically informed ecological niche models improve climate change predictions

DH Ikeda, TL Max, GJ Allan, MK Lau… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We examined the hypothesis that ecological niche models (ENM s) more accurately predict
species distributions when they incorporate information on population genetic structure, and …

Limits of thermal and hydrological tolerance in a foundation tree species (Populus fremontii) in the desert southwestern United States

ME Moran, LMT Aparecido, DF Koepke… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Populus fremontii is among the most dominant, and ecologically important riparian tree
species in the western United States and can thrive in hyper‐arid riparian corridors. Yet, P …

Conservative leaf economic traits correlate with fast growth of genotypes of a foundation riparian species near the thermal maximum extent of its geographic range

KC Grady, DC Laughlin, SM Ferrier, TE Kolb… - Functional …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Plant functional traits involved in carbon and water acquisition are likely to be adaptive
across the range of a species if the availability of these resources varies across this range …

Landscape genetic connectivity in a riparian foundation tree is jointly driven by climatic gradients and river networks

SA Cushman, T Max, N Meneses… - Ecological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremonti) is a foundation riparian tree species that drives
community structure and ecosystem processes in southwestern US ecosystems. Despite its …

Genetics-based interactions of foundation species affect community diversity, stability and network structure

AR Keith, JK Bailey, MK Lau… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We examined the hypothesis that genetics-based interactions between strongly interacting
foundation species, the tree Populus angustifolia and the aphid Pemphigus betae, affect …

Integrating active restoration with environmental flows to improve native riparian tree establishment in the Colorado River Delta

KJ Schlatter, MR Grabau, PB Shafroth… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Drastic alterations to river hydrology, land use change, and the spread of the nonnative
shrub, tamarisk (Tamarix spp.), have led to the degradation of riparian habitat in the …

Tree genetics strongly affect forest productivity, but intraspecific diversity–productivity relationships do not

DG Fischer, GM Wimp, E Hersch‐Green… - Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous studies have demonstrated biodiversity–productivity relationships in plant
communities, and analogous genetic diversity–productivity studies using genotype mixtures …