Quantifying the impacts of rewilding on ecosystem resilience to disturbances: A global meta-analysis

Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 375, P. 124360 - 124360

Published: Jan. 31, 2025

Rewilding is one approach to restoration that aims at restoring natural self-sustaining ecosystems, allowing processes resume by targeting an increase in trophic complexity, disturbance stochasticity, and dispersal, while minimizing human interventions. These components have also been argued enhance ecosystem resilience, yet this claim has barely specifically addressed. We conducted a meta-analysis explore whether rewilding interventions aimed increasing biodiversity (i.e., complexity), stochasticity or connectivity resilience future abiotic biotic disturbances. integrated two recently developed operational frameworks address scrutinized the outcomes of 42 case studies (305 observations). found that, overall, three abovementioned increased variables related demography, biodiversity, biophysical characteristics regime (70% Yet, result was influenced nature approach, with lower success reported for disturbances (drought fire) social-ecological resilience. While only together showed positive effects, complexity alone contributed less system biodiversity. The most common interventions, such as domestic wild herbivore introductions invasive plant removals, enhanced towards invasions). some particular contexts (social-ecological systems) lack sufficient observations allow clear conclusions. Overall, our results empirically demonstrate predominantly effects on underpinning potential preparing ecosystems uncertain climate change associated acknowledging limitations depending disturbance.

Language: Английский

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Indaziflam performance in coffee cultivation under different soil cover materials: agronomic efficacy, residual effect, and weed community

Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part B, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 11

Published: March 21, 2025

The objective of this study was to assess the performance indaziflam under different soil cover materials in coffee cultivation, focusing on its agronomic efficacy, residual effects, and influence weed community. studies were carried out at two farms: IPACER (sandy clay Oxisol - OXIsc) Glória (clay OXIcl). Evaluation factors included application (75 g a.i. ha-1), (crop debris, organic compost, bare soil), evaluation period from 30 180 d after (DAA). efficacy effect assessed by injury level, indaziflam's lifetime (RL50) estimated using a first-order model. Phytosociological parameters, including absolute relative frequency, density, abundance, importance value index, evaluated. results indicated that remained above 90% until 120 DAA all treatments with application, RL50 exceeding days. Weed indices higher areas without indaziflam, but treatment similarity analysis revealed community primarily influenced type, lesser impact cover. Neither crop residues nor compost compromised indicating their suitability for cultivation need increase herbicide doses.

Language: Английский

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Simple Bioassay for Phytotoxic Concentrations of the Herbicide Indaziflam in Soil

Rangeland Ecology & Management, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 100, P. 78 - 82

Published: March 28, 2025

Language: Английский

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Nontarget effects of herbicides on annual forbs and seeded grass in the Great Basin, United States, are partially offset by planting depth and application rate

Restoration Ecology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 32(7)

Published: June 25, 2024

Pre‐emergent herbicides can reduce the abundance of invasive annual plants, but they also harm native particularly annuals or perennial seedlings, including seeds planted during restoration. We assessed effects imazapic and indaziflam on target nontarget plants in Great Basin, a region with extensive grasses. tested forbs an agricultural field previously used to grow forbs, which contained large seed bank. seeded grass ( Elymus elymoides ) at multiple depths determine susceptibility resistance. Herbicides were applied full reduced rates mimic effect litter natural systems. observed reductions most non‐native species all treatments, although these offset lower application rates, some (e.g. Amsinckia tessellata Microsteris gracilis less susceptible than others. Herbicides, indaziflam, E. emergence, planting 2–3 cm improved for imazapic, 15–68% greater emergence 1 cm. suggest surveys resistant invaders before applying testing whether could provide weed control while maintaining forbs. when herbicides, approach that may be effective other species. Herbicide use tool, our results indicate mitigation will needed maintain plant diversity.

Language: Английский

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Plant and soil microbial composition legacies following indaziflam herbicide treatment

Frontiers in Microbiology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15

Published: Dec. 18, 2024

Land stewards in dryland ecosystems across the western U.S. face challenges to manage exotic grass

Language: Английский

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