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Plant and Soil Responses to High and Low Diversity Grassland Restoration Practices

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  • Elizabeth M. Bach

    (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Department of Plant Biology and Center for Ecology
    Iowa State University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology)

  • Sara G. Baer

    (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Department of Plant Biology and Center for Ecology)

  • Johan Six

    (University of California Davis, Department of Plant Sciences)

Abstract

The USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has predominantly used only a few species of dominant prairie grasses (CP2 practice) to reduce soil erosion, but recently has offered a higher diversity planting practice (CP25) to increase grassland habitat quality. We quantified plant community composition in CP25 and CP2 plantings restored for 4 or 8 years and compared belowground properties and processes among restorations and continuously cultivated soils in southeastern Nebraska, USA. Relative to cultivated soils, restoration increased soil microbial biomass (P = 0.033), specifically fungi (P

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  • Elizabeth M. Bach & Sara G. Baer & Johan Six, 2012. "Plant and Soil Responses to High and Low Diversity Grassland Restoration Practices," Environmental Management, Springer, vol. 49(2), pages 412-424, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:envman:v:49:y:2012:i:2:d:10.1007_s00267-011-9787-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s00267-011-9787-0
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