Plant-microbe interactions change along a tallgrass prairie restoration chronosequence

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna J. Herzberger ◽  
Scott J. Meiners ◽  
J. Brian Towey ◽  
Paula A. Butts ◽  
Daniel L. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Tallgrass Prairie ◽  
Prairie Restoration ◽  
Restoration Chronosequence ◽  
Microbe Interactions ◽  
Tallgrass Prairie Restoration

Characterisation of the fuel and fire environment in southern Ontario’s tallgrass prairie

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 1118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Kidnie ◽  
B. Mike Wotton
Keyword(s):  
Moisture Content ◽  
Tallgrass Prairie ◽  
Prescribed Burning ◽  
Fire Spread ◽  
Fuel Load ◽  
Prairie Restoration ◽  
Prescribed Burn ◽  
Spread Rate ◽  
Prescribed Burns ◽  
Tallgrass Prairie Restoration

Prescribed burning can be an integral part of tallgrass prairie restoration and management. Understanding fire behaviour in this fuel is critical to conducting safe and effective prescribed burns. Our goal was to quantify important physical characteristics of southern Ontario’s tallgrass fuel complex prior to and during prescribed burns and synthesise our findings into useful applications for the prescribed fire community. We found that the average fuel load in tallgrass communities was 0.70 kg m–2. Fuel loads varied from 0.38 to 0.96 kg m–2. Average heat of combustion did not vary by species and was 17 334 kJ kg–1. A moisture content model was developed for fully cured, matted field grass, which was found to successfully predict moisture content of the surface layers of cured tallgrass in spring. We observed 25 head fires in spring-season prescribed burns with spread rates ranging from 4 to 55 m min–1. Flame front residence time averaged 27 s, varying significantly with fuel load but not fire spread rate. A grassland spread rate model from Australia showed the closest agreement with observed spread rates. These results provide prescribed-burn practitioners in Ontario better information to plan and deliver successful burns.

Selection on convergent functional traits drives compositional divergence in early succession of a tallgrass prairie restoration experiment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisa Karimi ◽  
Daniel J. Larkin ◽  
Mary‐Claire Glasenhardt ◽  
Rebecca S. Barak ◽  
Evelyn W. Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Traits ◽  
Tallgrass Prairie ◽  
Prairie Restoration ◽  
Early Succession ◽  
Tallgrass Prairie Restoration

Temporal dynamics of plant community regeneration sources during tallgrass prairie restoration

Plant Ecology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 214 (9) ◽  
pp. 1169-1180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason E. Willand ◽  
Sara G. Baer ◽  
David J. Gibson ◽  
Ryan P. Klopf
Keyword(s):  
Plant Community ◽  
Tallgrass Prairie ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Prairie Restoration ◽  
Tallgrass Prairie Restoration

Effects of planting method and seed mix richness on the early stages of tallgrass prairie restoration

2011 ◽  
Vol 144 (12) ◽  
pp. 3127-3139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane L. Larson ◽  
JB. Bright ◽  
Pauline Drobney ◽  
Jennifer L. Larson ◽  
Nicholas Palaia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tallgrass Prairie ◽  
Prairie Restoration ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Tallgrass Prairie Restoration ◽  
Planting Method

Arbuscular mycorrhizae promote establishment of prairie species in a tallgrass prairie restoration

1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (11) ◽  
pp. 1947-1954 ◽  
Author(s):  
M R Smith ◽  
I Charvat ◽  
R L Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Tallgrass Prairie ◽  
Arbuscular Mycorrhizae ◽  
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal ◽  
Am Fungi ◽  
Prairie Restoration ◽  
Percent Cover ◽  
Native Prairie ◽  
Tallgrass Prairie Restoration ◽  
Field Plots ◽  
Rate Of Succession

The effect that arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) inoculum has on the development of an early successional tallgrass prairie restoration was investigated in field plots of a recently disturbed area in Minnesota, U.S.A. Mycorrhizal inoculum reproduced from a native prairie was placed below a mix of prairie seed. Two sets of control plots were established, those with seed only and those with seed and a sterilized soil. By the end of 15 months, plants in the inoculated plots had a significantly greater percentage of roots colonized by AM fungi. While inoculation had no effect on total percent cover of plants, percent cover of native planted grasses was significantly greater in the inoculated plots than in the two sets of controls. The increase in percent cover of native grasses may increase the rate of succession by allowing these grasses to outcompete the ruderal species also present at the site. Our findings suggest that inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizae promotes the development of early successional tallgrass prairie communities.Key words: mycorrhizae, prairie, reclamation, plant community, inoculation, restoration.

Development of soil microbial communities during tallgrass prairie restoration

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamlesh Jangid ◽  
Mark A. Williams ◽  
Alan J. Franzluebbers ◽  
John M. Blair ◽  
David C. Coleman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Tallgrass Prairie ◽  
Soil Microbial Communities ◽  
Prairie Restoration ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Tallgrass Prairie Restoration
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