Facilitation shifts paradigms and can amplify coastal restoration efforts

Facilitation shifts paradigms and can amplify coastal restoration efforts.

Restoration has been elevated as an important strategy to reverse the decline of coastal wetlands worldwide. Current practice in restoration science emphasizes minimizing competition between out-planted propagules to maximize planting success. This paradigm persists despite the fact that foundational theory in ecology demonstrates that positive species interactions are key to organism success u...

Forest Restoration Paradigms

JOHN A. STANTURF1, BRIAN J. PALIK2, MARY I. WILLIAMS3, R. KASTEN DUMROESE4, and PALLE MADSEN5 1Center for Forest Disturbance Science, Southern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, Athens, Georgia, USA 2Center for Research on Ecosystem Change, Northern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA 3School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Michigan Technologi...

Stability of exotic annual grasses following restoration efforts in southern California coastal sage scrub

1. Restoration of semi-arid shrub ecosystems often requires control of invasive grasses but the effects of these grass-control treatments on native and exotic forbs have not been investigated adequately to assess long-term stability. In southern California, coastal sage scrub (CSS) vegetation is one semi-arid shrub community that has been invaded extensively by both exotic grasses and exotic fo...

Ecology. Synthesizing U.S. river restoration efforts.

Action can amplify motion-induced illusory displacement

Local motion is known to produce strong illusory displacement in the perceived position of globally static objects. For example, if a dot-cloud or grating drifts to the left within a stationary aperture, the perceived position of the whole aperture will also be shifted to the left. Previously, we used a simple tracking task to demonstrate that active control over the global position of an objec...