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Description:: Successful restoration depends on the establishment and survival of selected species, and sowing seed is the most cost-effective method to ensuring a successful restoration. Generally, a locally sourced seed is thought to be better adapted to local environmental conditions and, therefore, more likely to thrive. In addition, a local seed...
Keyword:: Dormancy break, Restoration, Lespedeza, Germination, and Seedling Establishment
Subject:: Conservation biology
Creator:: Hevey, Robert
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15845 and etdadmin_upload_860227

Description:: The question of how native species diversity affects a community’s ability to resist invasive species has inspired decades of research. One of the oldest invasion biology hypotheses is that more species rich ecosystems are less invaded. While there has been strong support for this hypothesis, there is also strong evidence...
Keyword:: ecological restoration, functional diversity, phylogenetic diversity, community ecology, and invasive species
Subject:: Conservation biology, Plant sciences, and Ecology
Creator:: Ernst, Adrienne
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15686 and etdadmin_upload_839932

Description:: Genetic factors such as loss of genetic diversity, mutations, and inbreeding depression can increase a populations chances of extinction, therefore it is important to understand how these factors can contribute to populations decline. Among the genetic factors that can contribute to populations extinction, inbreeding depression is the only one that...
Keyword:: Self-incompatibility, Inbreeding depression, Reproductive system , and Pollinators
Subject:: Conservation biology, Genetics, and Botany
Creator:: Cisternas Fuentes, Anita
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_792611 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15451

Description:: Understanding the outcomes of interactions from assessing shoot traits has practical applications and has elucidated major ecological patterns. Roots and shoots differ in their functions and can differ in responses to abiotic and biotic stimuli. And while roots are more difficult to characterize because they tangle and are embedded in...
Keyword:: Plasticity, Species coexistence, Root traits, Intraspecific variation, Water stress, and Interaction
Subject:: Ecology, Plant sciences, and Conservation biology
Creator:: Foxx, Alicia J
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/28/2020
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15010 and etdadmin_upload_719313

Description:: Plant life history traits influence the extent and degree of gene flow across a species range. The resulting genetic neighborhood size can influence population differentiation and the scale of local adaptation, with implications for species response to environmental change and sourcing of plant materials for ecological restoration. To assess the...
Keyword:: seed biology, milkweed, gene flow, ecological restoration, seed sourcing, and population genetics
Subject:: Ecology, Botany, and Conservation biology
Creator:: Finch, Jessamine Hope Schmoyer
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_662709 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14656

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