Old‐Field Succession on a Minnesota Sand Plain

Inouye, Richard S.; Huntly, Nancy J.; Tilman, David; Tester, John R.; Stillwell, M. A.; Zinnel, Kathlean C.

doi:10.2307/1938801

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“…Cedar Creek Natural History Area is located 45 km north of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (45°24'N, 93°12'W), and has a typical mid-continental climate with hot, humid summers and cold winters. The soil within this Weld consists of fine sand (Grigal et al 1974), and nitrogen is the primary mineral nutrient limiting plant productivity within this Weld (Tilman 1984(Tilman , 1987.…”

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“…Light limitation is minimal because of a low standing plant biomass and limited litter accumulation. Fertilization and shading studies within the same Weld have shown that nitrogen is the main factor that determines the outcome of plant competition and nitrogen limits net primary productivity (Tilman 1984(Tilman , 1987(Tilman , 1990. Abandoned Welds in mid-central Minnesota show an early successional dominance by weedy annual plants, which are replaced by cool season C 3 grasses that have a dispersal advantage.…”

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“…Abandoned Welds in mid-central Minnesota show an early successional dominance by weedy annual plants, which are replaced by cool season C 3 grasses that have a dispersal advantage. Later in succession, C 3 grasses are replaced by C 4 grasses, warm season perennial grasses that have a strong advantage in competing for soil nitrogen (Inouye et al 1987;Tilman and Wedin 1991;Foster and Tilman 2000).…”

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Fire does not alter vegetation in infertile prairie

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2006

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The paradigm in prairie ecology is that fire is one of the key factors determining vegetation composition. fire can impact grassland ecosystems in various ways, including changing plant species composition and inducing nitrogen loss. I found that 17 years of different burning frequencies in infertile grassland had only a minor impact on the vegetation composition and diversity. The only major impact from increasing the frequency of fires was a decrease of Poa pratensis abundance. However, other plant species did not respond to the change in Poa abundance. This result contrasts with previous studies in savannas and more productive grasslands, where the balance between trees, grasses, and the elimination of the litter layer can result in large vegetation changes. However, in this system primary productivity was low, litter did not accumulate and no major vegetation shifts occurred. Thus, the long-term vegetation impacts of burning in an infertile, low-productivity prairie were minimal.

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Fire does not alter vegetation in infertile prairie

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2006

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“…En el segundo año estas malezas desaparecieron junto con el trigo no así el sorgo, como ocurre también en el oeste de Buenos Aires (D Angela et al, 1986). Esta comunidad puede considerarse la primera etapa de esta sucesión que es muy similar a la de otros ecosistemas de distintos lugares (Perino & Risser, 1972;Kaputska & Molenski, 1976;Collins & Adams, 1983;D Angela et al, 1986;Inouye et al, 1987;Lewis et al, 1987).…”

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“…Las primeras especies en colonizar el área después de ser abandonada son las especies del cultivo previo (Bazzaz, 1968), en praderas norteamericanas; después de la etapa de malezas sigue una etapa de pastos anuales; luego otra de pastos cespitosos, y finalmente la pradera madura, formada fundamentalmente por los pastos indígenas, después de 40 años o más (Perino & Risser, 1972;Kaputska & Molenski, 1976;Collins & Adams, 1983;Inouye et al, 1987).…”

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Cambios en la vegetacion de un campo abandonado despues de un cultivo de trigo

Boccanelli¹,

Pire²,

Torres³

et al. 1999

Pesq. agropec. bras.

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RESUMEN -La vegetación prístina de los campos altos del sur de Santa Fe (Argentina) son distintos tipos de flechillares caracterizados por la abundancia de varias especies del género Stipa. Cuando un campo agrícola se abandona suele revertir a las comunidades prístinas. El objeto de este trabajo es analizar los diez primeros años de la sucesión secundaria de un campo sometido a agricultura durante largo tiempo que se abandonó después de un cultivo de trigo (Triticum aestivum). En el primer año aparece trigo acompañado de malezas anuales (Chenopodium album y Portulaca oleracea); después del primer año una parcela fue colonizada por Baccharis salicifolia y las otras por Carduus acanthoides, Cerastium glomeratum, Ammi majus, etc. Los últimos años constituyen una etapa en la que disminuye la diversidad y se establece una fuerte dominancia de Baccharis salicifolia o Carduus acanthoides. El Sorgo de Alepo (Sorghum halepense) aparece en las etapas tempranas y perdura durante todo el período con valores altos de abundancia. Aún, prácticamente no han aparecido especies de los flechillares, por lo tanto se concluye que no ha transcurrido suficiente tiempo para que se regenere el flechillar, o porque sus especies no se encuentran en los bancos de semillas o en las proximidades.Términos para índice: Pampa, pradera, Triticum aestivum, sucesión, diversidad, dinámica de la vegetación. VEGETATION CHANGES IN A FIELD ABANDONED AFTER A WHEAT CROPABSTRACT -The natural vegetation of well drained fields of Southern Santa Fe (Argentina) are a different kind of communities characterized by the abundance of several species of Stipa. When agricultural lands are abandoned, they are often recolonized by the original vegetation. The object of this paper is to analize the first ten years of secondary succession on a field under a long time of agriculture abandoned after a wheat crop. On the first year, wheat with annual weeds (Chenopodium album and Portulaca oleracea) appeared. After the first year, one plot was colonized by Baccharis salicifolia and the others by Carduus acanthoides, Cerastium glomeratum, Ammi majus, etc. The last years constitute another stage where diversity is reduced and a strong dominance of Baccharis salicifolia or Carduus acanthoides becomes visible. Johnson grass appeared at the begining of the succession and stayed for the whole period with high abundance values. So far no species of the natural communities have established on this field, possibly because not enough time has elapsed yet or because they are absent from the seed bank or in the neighbourhood.

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Seeding roadsides is necessary but not sufficient for restoring native floral communities

Mitchell,

Verhoeven,

Darst

et al. 2024

Ecol Sol and Evidence

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The plant community in roadside right‐of‐ways is an important component of transportation infrastructure. Revegetation after construction is an opportunity to improve the plant community and create pollinator habitat. However, native seed mixes are substantially more expensive than those used in conventional roadside plantings, and transportation agencies often lack resources for management. Here, we compare the actively flowering plant community across a growing season in roadside plots seeded with native seed mixes versus non‐native seed mixes in Minnesota, USA. Plots varied in age from 2 to 20 years old. We demonstrate that native seeded plots had more native flowering forbs than non‐native seeded plots, as native flowers were rare in the non‐native seeded plots. However, despite some native species establishing well, many species in native seed mixes had poor or non‐existent establishment. Furthermore, the native and non‐native seeded plots converged in the makeup of their floral communities after a few years; part of this pattern is due to colonisation of species that were never seeded at either type of plot. Practical implication. If the goal of revegetation is to produce diverse, native dominated floral communities in roadsides, agencies must invest more in long‐term management. Managers could also alter seed mixes to remove species that fail to establish, which would reduce the cost of the seed mix, but not the diversity of the plant community that ultimately establishes. The use of such streamlined seed mixes across more land area would increase the availability of pollinator habitat without substantially altering current budgets or management plans.

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Old‐Field Succession on a Minnesota Sand Plain

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Fire does not alter vegetation in infertile prairie

Fire does not alter vegetation in infertile prairie

Cambios en la vegetacion de un campo abandonado despues de un cultivo de trigo

Seeding roadsides is necessary but not sufficient for restoring native floral communities

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