{"id":27,"date":"2021-07-29T16:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:44:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:44:22","slug":"trait-ontogeny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/projects-and-activities\/trait-ontogeny\/","title":{"rendered":"Trait ontogeny and the regeneration niche \u2013 why do some species used in restoration survive drought while others do not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b>Trait ontogeny and the regeneration niche &#8211; why do some species used in restoration survive drought while others do not?<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Purpose:\u00a0<\/strong>Seedling recruitment is a key barrier to restoration success in degraded dryland ecosystems. Selecting species with traits that allow for seedling persistence during periods of low water availability\u00a0may be important for promoting<b>\u00a0<\/b>recruitment success, particularly in the face of climate change.\u00a0In collaboration with scientists at the US Geological\u00a0Survey Southwest Biological Science Center and Northern Arizona University, I am conducting a large greenhouse experiment to test how seedling traits shift during early stages of plant recruitment and how shifts in seedling trait values (especially root traits) may affect restoration success across degraded rangelands in the Southwestern US.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plant species:\u00a0<\/strong>Dryland plant species commonly used in restoration:\u00a0\u00a0<i>Linum lewisii, Pascopyrum smithii, Achillea millefolium, Dalea candida, Bouteloua gracilis, Poa Secunda, Penstemon palmeri<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Participants<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:caroline.havrrilla@nau.edu\">Caroline Havrilla<\/a> (USGS\/NAU)<br \/>\nSeth Munson (USGS)<br \/>\nBrad Butterfield (NAU)<br \/>\nKathleen Balazs (NAU)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding:<\/strong> RAMPS<\/p>\n<div class='shortcode-column-container'><!-- shortcode-column -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-column shortcode-column--count-2\">\n    \n<figure id=\"attachment_5148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5148\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5148 size-portrait-image\" src=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/Drought-and-Native-Plants_1-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"Drought and native plants\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undergraduate Marci Reynolds-Caballero, UofA watering the project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-column -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-column shortcode-column--count-2\">\n    \n<figure id=\"attachment_5149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5149\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5149 size-portrait-image\" src=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/Drought-and-Native-Plants_2-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A native forb after several weeks of growth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trait ontogeny and the regeneration niche &#8211; why do some species used in restoration survive drought while others do not? Purpose:\u00a0Seedling recruitment is a key barrier to restoration success in degraded dryland ecosystems. Selecting species with traits that allow for seedling persistence during periods of low water availability\u00a0may be important for promoting\u00a0recruitment success, particularly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/239"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}