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Crawling Across a Meadow

Crawling Across a Meadow EDITORIAL Steven N. Handel hey crawl across the ground, searching, discover- ing new targets, blanketing an area, dominating. Te Th y can overwhelm restoration projects, destroy - ing hoped-for biodiversity and carefully rendered designs. e Th y succeed in forcing their influence over our actions. e Th y make us fail at predicting what our projects will look like. es Th e are the clonal species that can sweep through our restoration sites. We are schooled in the importance of seed production and seedling emergence as the reproductive processes that create the vegetation around us. But many plants, most species in some habitats, kiss off sexual repro - duction and engulf our landscapes by vegetative growth, clonality. Clones of white clover (Trifolium repens) wander across Both woody and herbaceous plants, use vegetative repro- the soil surface, rooting and expanding when micro- duction as the main process to increase stems, ramets, sites are available (photo by S. Handel). in a population. Spreading by underground rhizomes or above-ground stolons, even creating new individuals by Some authors have used the idiom of warfare to describe fragments that can disperse and then root, clonal plants how clonal plants can come to dominate. A http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ecological Restoration University of Wisconsin Press

Crawling Across a Meadow

Handel, Steven N.
Ecological Restoration , Volume 38 (1) – Mar 9, 2020
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EDITORIAL Steven N. Handel hey crawl across the ground, searching, discover- ing new targets, blanketing an area, dominating. Te Th y can overwhelm restoration projects, destroy - ing hoped-for biodiversity and carefully rendered designs. e Th y succeed in forcing their influence over our actions. e Th y make us fail at predicting what our projects will look like. es Th e are the clonal species that can sweep through our restoration sites. We are schooled in the importance of seed production and seedling emergence as the reproductive processes that create the vegetation around us. But many plants, most species in some habitats, kiss off sexual repro - duction and engulf our landscapes by vegetative growth, clonality. Clones of white clover (Trifolium repens) wander across Both woody and herbaceous plants, use vegetative repro- the soil surface, rooting and expanding when micro- duction as the main process to increase stems, ramets, sites are available (photo by S. Handel). in a population. Spreading by underground rhizomes or above-ground stolons, even creating new individuals by Some authors have used the idiom of warfare to describe fragments that can disperse and then root, clonal plants how clonal plants can come to dominate. A

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Published: Mar 9, 2020

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